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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 is the name of Charlie Victor's date on the excursion?
(a) Betty.
(b) Viola.
(c) Doris.
(d) Maisie.

2. Why does Harry go into the phone booth?
(a) To call a hotel.
(b) To call Poor.
(c) To call his agent.
(d) To call the police.

3. In his discussion of Syl's behavior with women, what does the narrator compare women to?
(a) Bottles of rum being drunk by Syl.
(b) Flowers being tended by Syl.
(c) Butterflies being captured by Syl.
(d) Whales being hunted by Syl.

4. What suggestion does Bat make after Syl accuses Bat of deliberately taking him to an area where the hotels will refuse him?
(a) They can go back to the apartment, and Bat will stay upstairs with his sister and Matilda while Pat and Syl sleep downstairs.
(b) They can go to Hyde Park and ask his sister which hotels will rent rooms to Black patrons.
(c) They can go to an all-night restaurant in Piccadilly Circus and then Pat can catch a morning train to work.
(d) They can go to Tottenham Court Road and ask his three friends from Barbados to let Pat and Syl stay there.

5. 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 gives him two shillings and six pence.
(c) She tells him she is thinking of marrying Harry.
(d) She offers to set him up with a friend of hers.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is a char-a-banc?

5. What does the narrator compare the mens' appetites for women to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Nobby end up with a dog?

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

3. 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?

4. Explain Matilda's "excursion" plan.

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

6. What irony does the narrator point out in the way men treat women?

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

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

9. Describe Bat's reaction to Matilda's suggestion about the excursion.

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

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