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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Elias can't pass the exam for his license, what does he become?
(a) A boxer.
(b) A cook.
(c) A poet.
(d) The driver of a scavenging cart.

2. What does Man-man declare he is?
(a) He declares he's the new messiah and will be crucified.
(b) He declares he's an American.
(c) He declares he's an orphan who is actually a prince.
(d) He declares he's a politician who will rule Trinidad.

3. What does Elias do after his mother's death?
(a) He becomes a hermit.
(b) He becomes very ill.
(c) He disappears on a ship.
(d) He drops out of the author's circle of friends.

4. How long is Bogart gone the first time he disappears from Miguel Street?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Six months.
(c) Three months.
(d) Two months.

5. How many years does B.Wordsworth expect to spend writing his poem?
(a) Three years.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Twenty-two years.

6. What does Man-man start doing after his dog is dead?
(a) He writes a book about his dog.
(b) He preaches and gives his possessions away.
(c) He starts stealing from the shops on Miguel Street.
(d) He cries all the time.

7. How does George treat his children?
(a) He is ver protective of them.
(b) He dotes on them.
(c) He expects them to be great successes.
(d) He beats them savagely, too.

8. What kind of poem does B. Wordsworth intend to write?
(a) The greatest poem in the world.
(b) A poem about Trinidad.
(c) A poem on nature.
(d) A love poem.

9. What does Popo do when his wife leaves him?
(a) He takes up drinking.
(b) He starts sleeping around.
(c) He cries a lot.
(d) He works very hard.

10. What is Pogo's second wife's name?
(a) Emilia .
(b) Lucia.
(c) Ezmerelda.
(d) Emelda.

11. What is the name of Dolly's husband?
(a) Sword.
(b) Razor.
(c) Dagger.
(d) Knife.

12. What does Sergeant Charles arrest Bogart for?
(a) Being a public nuisance.
(b) Stealing.
(c) Bigamy.
(d) Drunkeness.

13. How does George treat his second wife and his daughter?
(a) He serves them breakfast sandwiches and coffee.
(b) He starts beating them both savagely .
(c) He plans starting to e preptar
(d) He becomes the "model" husband and father.

14. Who does Hat look and talk like?
(a) Clark Gable.
(b) Errol Flynn.
(c) Cary Grant.
(d) Rex Harrison.

15. Who is Black Wordsworth?
(a) A Carnival character of the island.
(b) A mant who visits the author one day.
(c) A friend of Man-man's.
(d) A friend of Elias's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dolly, George's daughter, do after George's second wife leaves him.

2. How does Bogart make his money?

3. Why is Popo put in jail?

4. What does Bogart do on his first trip away from Miguel Street?

5. What does Elias do after the second wife leaves his father?

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