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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jean surprise Gallows when he runs into her near the park where she is looking for clients?
(a) She asks him to drop out of the housing plan.
(b) She offers to set him up with a friend of hers.
(c) She gives him two shillings and six pence.
(d) She tells him she is thinking of marrying Harry.

2. Where is Pat from?
(a) Scotland.
(b) Wales.
(c) Ireland.
(d) England.

3. What does Alfy draw and ask Syl to identify when the friends are standing around talking by Marble Arch?
(a) A marijuana plant.
(b) A map of Port of Spain.
(c) Female genitalia.
(d) The alphabet.

4. Which quality of Syl's is Bat taking advantage of when he asks Syl for three guineas for the final hotel room?
(a) His chivalry.
(b) His greed.
(c) His generosity.
(d) His gullibility.

5. When Matilda asks Bat why he called the name "Jeanie" while they were having sex, what literary technique is employed (52)?
(a) Verbal irony.
(b) Paronomasia.
(c) Paraprosdokian.
(d) Litotes.

Short Answer Questions

1. When, on page 83, the narrator says that "Trinidadians does thirst after fete as pants the hart for crystal streams," what is the Trinidadians' love for "fete" being compared to?

2. When the group makes it to Westbourne Grove, whom does Bat tell Syl to ask about a hotel room?

3. When Bat tells his friends that they are "stupid," and Alfy agrees that this is true "in the past tense," what is Alfy implying (60)?

4. What time of year is it when the men first come up with the plan to buy a house?

5. What does Harry do to make himself feel better after his conversation with Jean near the park?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Harry end up in London, and what point does the narrator say this illustrates?

2. What function do the historical details offered during the Hamdon Court excursion serve?

3. Explain Matilda's "excursion" plan.

4. When the friends come to Bat's apartment to ask for their money back, what does the narrator mean when he says that Bat "shake the lists as if they was cheques" (60)?

5. When, outside the final hotel, Gallows asks whether Syl got Pat an Indian curry, what is he referring to, and what is Syl's reply?

6. What two opposing forces pull at Charlie Victor during the excursion to Hamdon Court?

7. What story about finding money did Alfy once tell Gallows?

8. When the friends come to Bat's apartment to ask for their money back, how does Bat use their feelings for Harry to manipulate them?

9. What details does the narrator give about the excursion crowd's clothing and the things they are carrying, and what do these details imply?

10. How does Harry react when he learns what Jean does for a living?

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