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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. What does Gallows take from a pile of trash when he, Syl, Pat, and Bat are looking for a hotel room?
(a) A five-pound note.
(b) An old camera.
(c) A piece of wood.
(d) A bottle of rum.

2. On page 59, what does the narrator compare the summer to?
(a) The "hunting season."
(b) The "planting season."
(c) The "marrying season."
(d) The "mating season."

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)?
(a) His friends were angry, before, but they have calmed down.
(b) His other friends are being foolish to ask for their money back.
(c) The friends were unwise to trust Bat in the first place.
(d) The friends might feel differently if Bat has actually made some progress.

4. What does Syl tell Pat to stop doing when they see a police car approaching?
(a) Crying.
(b) Leaning against the wall.
(c) Hiding behind Bat.
(d) Shoving him.

5. Which of the friends urges the others to give Bat a chance to explain what is happening with the housing plan?
(a) Nobby.
(b) Poor.
(c) Gallows.
(d) Alfy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Syl's solution to Nobby's unwilling dog ownership?

2. What does Bat say is wrong with the house that he supposedly went to see in Cricklewood?

3. When Matilda asks Bat why he called the name "Jeanie" while they were having sex, what literary technique is employed (52)?

4. When Syl is in the first hotel asking for a room, what does Bat object to?

5. What does Nobby tell his landlady he has named the dog?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What does Teena expect from Fitz during the excursion, and how does he get out of doing what she asks?

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. What details does the narrator give that demonstrate how eager people are to go on the excursion?

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

7. What about the timing of the mens' plan to buy a house makes the narrator think they were never serious to begin with?

8. 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?

9. What tactics does Syl use to try to get Pat to sleep with him that violate modern Western standards of consent?

10. What evidence is there that Gallows understands Bat's intentions during the search for the hotel?

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