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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Pages 51-75.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Nobby's landlady's name?
(a) Mrs. Feltin.
(b) Mrs. Little.
(c) Mrs. Quinn.
(d) Mrs. Tucker.

2. What technique is used when the narrator says that "Up in the atmosphere thunder roll with laughter"?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Personification.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Hyperbole.

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

4. In the page 1 sentence "Pound notes and fivers start to fall all about in the room, until is as if he is swimming in it, and the water-mark rising higher and higher," what technique is being used?
(a) Simile.
(b) Personification.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Hyperbole.

5. What condition does Battersby put on his agreement to take Harry as a roommate?
(a) He does not want Harry to bring his banjo.
(b) He does not want Harry to be told what the rent is.
(c) He wants Harry to agree not to speak to his sister.
(d) He wants Harry to agree to do all the cooking and cleaning.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jean surprise Gallows when he runs into her near the park where she is looking for clients?

2. When they are smoking in the park, where does Poor offer to take Harry later that evening?

3. In what area of London is the novel set?

4. After they ask for it back, where does Bat tell the men the money they gave him is, right now?

5. What causes the fuse in Bat's apartment building to blow?

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