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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Syl's constant cross-kissing meant to show about him?
(a) He is trying to assimilate.
(b) He is superstitious and nervous.
(c) He is trying to impress Pat.
(d) He is very religious.

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

3. What is a char-a-banc?
(a) A larger taxi-cab, usually shared between more than one set of passengers.
(b) A vehicle with several rows of bench seats and no center aisle.
(c) A double-decker bus used for sightseeing.
(d) A trolley car that has been converted to run without tracks.

4. What is implied by Pat looking around the apartment "as if she seeing it for the first time" before she announces "I can't sleep here" (76)?
(a) The apartment is too far away from Pat's job.
(b) The apartment is very run down.
(c) Pat is prejudiced against Blacks.
(d) Pat is afraid of being alone with three men.

5. Of the friends who have agreed to the housing plan, which three does the narrator say are at least somewhat serious about getting a house?
(a) Bat, Gallows, and Harry.
(b) Gallows, Harry, and Ftiz.
(c) Harry, Bat, and Syl.
(d) Harry, Fitz, and Bat.

6. What does the narrator say makes it seem "as if a hoodoo on old Syl, or else the gods favouring Battersby" (79)?
(a) The nasty turn the weather takes while the group is looking for a hotel.
(b) Pat's clear preference for Bat.
(c) The refusal of hotel after hotel to rent Syl a room.
(d) Syl's repeated accidents and misfortunes that night.

7. In Westbourne Grove, when Pat refuses to let Syl touch her, what does Syl threaten to do?
(a) Make her pay for her own hotel.
(b) Abandon her.
(c) Take her back to Bat's apartment.
(d) Hit her.

8. Which of the friends sees Harry as he is being led away by the two men?
(a) Poor.
(b) Gallows.
(c) Alfy.
(d) Syl.

9. When Harry runs into Jean near the park on the night he is wandering around high, what does he finally realize?
(a) Jean is a sex worker.
(b) Jean is controlling and mean.
(c) Jean does not want to marry a Black man.
(d) Jean is the only thing keeping the housing plan together.

10. When the group of friends gather one summer night at Bat's apartment, why is Harry absent?
(a) He is performing.
(b) He is on a date.
(c) He is in jail.
(d) He is visiting Jamaica.

11. 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 how the city chooses pavement companies.
(c) He wonders why the city's rich people are so careless with trash.
(d) He wonders whether the city's streets are really paved with gold.

12. What qualifies Bat to run the excursion to Hamdon Court?
(a) He has previously run an excursion to Brighton.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He has run many excursions in Trinidad.
(d) He has a degree in history.

13. When Bat tells his friends that they are "stupid," and Alfy agrees that this is true "in the past tense," what is Alfy implying (60)?
(a) His other friends are being foolish to ask for their money back.
(b) The friends were unwise to trust Bat in the first place.
(c) His friends were angry, before, but they have calmed down.
(d) The friends might feel differently if Bat has actually made some progress.

14. Which phrase that Bat allegedly reads from the housing listings on page 61 is a clue that he might be lying?
(a) "Highly-residential houses."
(b) "Large selection."
(c) "Our mortgage facilities."
(d) "All part of the country."

15. When Bat tells Syl that a hotel room in the first area they go to is likely to cost two guineas or more, what does the narrator comment about Bat's motives?
(a) He is trying to get Syl to ask him to split the cost of the room.
(b) He is trying to demonstrate to Pat how cheap Syl is.
(c) He is trying to demonstrate to Pat how poor Syl is.
(d) He is trying to get Syl to change his mind about getting a hotel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What suggestion does Bat make after Syl accuses Bat of deliberately taking him to an area where the hotels will refuse him?

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

3. After Nobby gets rid of his dog, what does he tell his landlady happened to it?

4. On page 81, what description of his own demeanor does Bat give when he is persuading Syl to let him be the one to go into the final hotel to ask for a room?

5. Why is Nobby so anxious to make sure his landlady likes him?

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