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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 does the expression "as if butter won't melt in his mouth" mean (8)?
(a) A pretense of being innocent and sincere.
(b) An insistence on high moral standards.
(c) An envious or jealous temperament.
(d) A cold and distant attitude.

2. Which of the friends urges the others to give Bat a chance to explain what is happening with the housing plan?
(a) Alfy.
(b) Gallows.
(c) Nobby.
(d) Poor.

3. On the summer night when everyone gathers at Bat's apartment, how does Bat prepare for their visit?
(a) He gets a loan from Jean to hide his own thefts.
(b) He goes to the market to get rum, limes, and soda.
(c) He hurries out and gathers housing listings.
(d) He hides all of his valuables.

4. What is the narrator's purpose in listing the English behaviors and beliefs that he lists on pages 3 and 4?
(a) He wants readers to question their own assumptions about science.
(b) He intends to show that the English are superstitious people.
(c) He means to contrast these with West Indian behaviors and beliefs.
(d) He is making fun of religious and spiritual ways of interpreting the world.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bat get angry at Gallows for trying to do during the brief blackout in Bat's apartment building?

2. When Poor and Harry are smoking in the park, what question does Harry ask?

3. What word does Poor use to refer to a marijuana cigarette?

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

5. Why does Gallows say that he feels sorry for Harry?

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