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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Pages 1-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What objection does Battersby have to having Harry as a roommate?
(a) Harry has no steady income.
(b) Harry is interested in Battersby's sister.
(c) Harry is Jamaican.
(d) Harry plays the banjo.

2. What question does Harry ask Battersby when they are on their way to the store?
(a) Whether Jean has a boyfriend.
(b) How Alfonso and Poor got White girlfriends.
(c) Whether he knows any calypso songs.
(d) In what part of London they should look for a house.

3. What time does Battersby usually wake up to get ready for work?
(a) 8:00 a.m.
(b) 5:00 a.m.
(c) 7:00 a.m.
(d) 6:00 a.m.

4. What does Harry plan to do to make "some big money" (15)?
(a) Rob a store.
(b) Get a construction job.
(c) Sell tapes of his music.
(d) Write home to his parents.

5. What do Battersby and Harry go out to get when Battersby's friends gather at his apartment?
(a) A newspaper and a lottery ticket.
(b) Cigarettes and rum.
(c) Soda water and lime juice.
(d) Benne balls and sweet potato chips.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day of the week does the story open?

2. When Battersby is daydreaming in the novel's opening, what does he wish for, besides a woman?

3. What is de Nobriga's nickname?

4. What nation has the protagonist emigrated from?

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

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