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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 Harry do to make himself feel better after his conversation with Jean near the park?
(a) He picks up an English sex worker and takes her home.
(b) He takes out one of Poor's joints and smokes it.
(c) He goes to the apartment and drinks the last of Bat's rum.
(d) He buys and smokes a pack of expensive cigarettes.

2. When Harry runs into Jean near the park on the night he is wandering around high, what does he finally realize?
(a) Jean is a sex worker.
(b) Jean is the only thing keeping the housing plan together.
(c) Jean is controlling and mean.
(d) Jean does not want to marry a Black man.

3. In Westbourne Grove, when Pat refuses to let Syl touch her, what does Syl threaten to do?
(a) Make her pay for her own hotel.
(b) Hit her.
(c) Take her back to Bat's apartment.
(d) Abandon her.

4. From the narrator's comment that "Syl would of tried the Savoy that night, he was so thirsty," what can be concluded about the Savoy (79)?
(a) It is a hotel with a well-known bar.
(b) It is a hotel that caters to itinerants and sex workers.
(c) It is a very expensive and exclusive hotel.
(d) It is a bar where a person can easily meet sex workers.

5. Why does Gallows hope that he finds a wallet on the ground instead of finding loose money, as Alfy did?
(a) It would be easier to pretend to have dropped.
(b) It might lead to a reward from the owner.
(c) It would be less work to pick up.
(d) It would likely contain more money.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the friends seems most affected by the temptations of summer?

3. What does Gallows take from a pile of trash when he, Syl, Pat, and Bat are looking for a hotel room?

4. Where does Bat first suggest Syl look for a hotel room?

5. On the summer night when everyone gathers at Bat's apartment, how does Bat prepare for their visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Poor do to disrupt the excursion, and why does he do it?

2. How does Bat manipulate the situation so that he is the one who ends up with Pat?

3. Describe the crowd's behavior on the bus on the way to Hamdon Court.

4. What does Syl spend most of his free time doing in the summer, and why does it seem to be a wasted effort?

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

6. 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?

7. 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)?

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

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

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

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