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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 technique is employed when the narrator says, "If I was writing a story I could make up all sorts of things" (14)?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Irony.
(d) Understatement.

2. What does Teena constantly try to prevent the men from doing?
(a) Playing cards.
(b) Drinking rum.
(c) Going to the race track.
(d) Smoking marijuana.

3. What nation has the protagonist emigrated from?
(a) Guyana.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Jamaica.
(d) Trinidad.

4. What reason does Nobby give for thinking that Harry will not be able to make a success of his singing career?
(a) He is not talented.
(b) He is Black.
(c) He sings the wrong kind of music.
(d) He is easy to manipulate.

5. In the market, when Alfy calls out to Poor that he is "dying for a cigarette," what reason does he give for not smoking one (39)?
(a) He is completely out of both cigarettes and money.
(b) Gallows might see him and tell Battersby.
(c) His wife has demanded that he stop smoking.
(d) He is trying to save money for the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Poor approaches his friends in the market, what detail of his appearance does the narrator mention?

2. Where does Gallows tell his friends that he might get a windfall of money from?

3. What word do the male characters often use to refer to a woman?

4. Why does Gallows go to the market one Saturday afternoon?

5. What word do the characters use that hints at the French colonial history of Trinidad?

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