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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. Where does Bat first suggest Syl look for a hotel room?
(a) Newham.
(b) Brixton.
(c) Bayswater.
(d) Hackney.

2. Who arrives at the lunch area in a rowboat?
(a) Syl.
(b) Poor.
(c) Charlie.
(d) Gallows.

3. What does Nobby's landlady tell him he must feed his dog?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Steak.
(c) Organ meats.
(d) Stew meat.

4. When Bat is trying to seduce Matilda in his apartment after she suggests the excursion, besides flattering her, what else does he tell her?
(a) He will soon be rich.
(b) Her English boyfriend will never marry her.
(c) Her religious scruples are holding her back.
(d) He wants to marry a Black woman.

5. On the summer night when everyone gathers at Bat's apartment, how does Bat prepare for their visit?
(a) He goes to the market to get rum, limes, and soda.
(b) He hides all of his valuables.
(c) He gets a loan from Jean to hide his own thefts.
(d) He hurries out and gathers housing listings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which phrase that Bat allegedly reads from the housing listings on page 61 is a clue that he might be lying?

2. When Harry runs into Jean near the park on the night he is wandering around high, what does he finally realize?

3. What is Nobby's landlady's name?

4. Where do the group of friends deliberately leave Gallows behind?

5. 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)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Matilda's "excursion" plan.

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. How did Nobby end up with a dog?

7. Who are the Legion of Mary sisters, and what do they want from Jean?

8. 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)?

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

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

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