View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 means to contrast these with West Indian behaviors and beliefs.
(c) He intends to show that the English are superstitious people.
(d) He is making fun of religious and spiritual ways of interpreting the world.

2. What does the narrator compare Pat to when she goes into the final hotel with Bat?
(a) A pawn.
(b) A child.
(c) A lamb.
(d) A lemming.

3. Who comes to Battersby's apartment while he is trying to eat breakfast?
(a) His sister.
(b) Harry Banjo.
(c) Fitzwilliams.
(d) Charlie Victor.

4. What does Bat say is wrong with the house that he supposedly went to see in Cricklewood?
(a) It has dry rot.
(b) It is not on a bus line.
(c) It needs a new roof.
(d) It is too large.

5. Why does Gallows suggest that Pat be the one to go in and ask for a hotel room?
(a) He suspects that Bat has some plan to take Pat from Syl.
(b) He wants the three men to leave her while she is inside asking for a room.
(c) He thinks that the hotel is unlikely to rent to Syl.
(d) He thinks Pat would have more control if the room were in her name.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Matilda asks Bat why he called the name "Jeanie" while they were having sex, what literary technique is employed (52)?

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

3. According to Bat's reading of one housing listing, how much money will the friends need for a deposit on a house in Notting Hill?

4. What does Harry do to make himself feel better after his conversation with Jean near the park?

5. How does Jean surprise Gallows when he runs into her near the park where she is looking for clients?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 411 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample