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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Pages 76-100.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Bat get angry at Gallows for trying to do during the brief blackout in Bat's apartment building?
(a) Steal money.
(b) Smoke Bat's cigarettes.
(c) Drink Bat's rum.
(d) Touch Matilda.

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

3. When Syl is in the first hotel asking for a room, what does Bat object to?
(a) He thinks that Syl should have sent Pat into the hotel.
(b) He does not like to see Pat standing alone outside the hotel.
(c) He does not like the way that Syl is manipulating Pat.
(d) He thinks that this hotel is unlikely to impress Pat.

4. When Gallows looks at the pavement of Bayswater Road, what does it make him wonder about London?
(a) He wonders why there are not more accidents on the city's terrible roads.
(b) He wonders whether the city's streets are really paved with gold.
(c) He wonders how the city chooses pavement companies.
(d) He wonders why the city's rich people are so careless with trash.

5. When Harry is wandering through Piccadilly Circus, still high from smoking with Poor, what is he thinking about?
(a) Being a famous musician.
(b) Owning his own house.
(c) Missing his family in Montego Bay.
(d) Marrying Jean.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On the summer night when everyone gathers at Bat's apartment, how does Bat prepare for their visit?

3. Which quality of Syl's is Bat taking advantage of when he asks Syl for three guineas for the final hotel room?

4. Why does Battersby's sister warn Matilda about him?

5. Why are many people in the West Indian community upset with Poor?

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