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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Pages 26-50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Poor do for a living?
(a) He is a sales clerk.
(b) He is a pickpocket.
(c) He sells drugs.
(d) He works in a cannery.

2. Each time the men go by Fitz and Teena's house, what do they find Fitz doing?
(a) Cleaning.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Praying.
(d) Reading.

3. What word does Battersby use to describe his sister?
(a) Shark.
(b) Fire.
(c) Storm.
(d) Bulldog.

4. What causes the fuse in Bat's apartment building to blow?
(a) The tape recorder.
(b) The alarm clock.
(c) The hotplate.
(d) The refrigerator.

5. When they are smoking in the park, where does Poor offer to take Harry later that evening?
(a) Piccadilly Circus.
(b) Hyde Park.
(c) To meet Fitz's wife.
(d) A Jamaican-owned club.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nation has the protagonist emigrated from?

2. What is the narrator's purpose in listing the English behaviors and beliefs that he lists on pages 3 and 4?

3. When Harry and Jean go out into the hallway together, he decides to "make hay while the match was shining" (26). What does the expression "make hay" mean?

4. What question does Harry ask Battersby when they are on their way to the store?

5. What do Harry and Jean agree that Bat and his friends all lack?

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