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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Titus Hoyt think will make him an educated man?
(a) Studying the Greek philosophers.
(b) Following a time-table every day.
(c) Going to England to study.
(d) Reading the Guardian.
2. Morgan is more like what than a man?
(a) A monkey.
(b) A bird.
(c) A dog.
(d) A cat.
3. Who comforts the author when he starts crying?
(a) Morgan.
(b) His mother.
(c) Hat.
(d) A little girl in a pink dress.
4. What does Morgan try to be?
(a) A policeman.
(b) A comedian.
(c) A garbage man.
(d) A waiter.
5. What do Errol, Boyee and the author think will make the war end quickly?
(a) Dropping more bombs on the Germans.
(b) American soldiers.
(c) Getting more countries to join the war effort.
(d) Making Anthony Eden Prime Minister.
6. Why is everyone on Miguel Street so afraid of Big Foot?
(a) He's not afraid of anything.
(b) He killed a man.
(c) He's so big and black.
(d) He's so silent and dangerous-looking.
7. How does Big Foot's mother treat him?
(a) She protects him from his father.
(b) She brags about him to the neighbors.
(c) She spoils him.
(d) She beats him savagely.
8. When did the author meet Titus Hoyt?
(a) When he was a little boy.
(b) A year after the war started.
(c) A year or two before the war after his father died.
(d) Four months after the war started.
9. How much does Hat pay out after Big Foot's big fight?
(a) Two hundred dollars.
(b) Twenty dollars.
(c) A hundred dollars.
(d) Fifty dollars.
10. Why doesn't Hat like Morgan?
(a) He doesn't like that he beats his children.
(b) He feels he's a fool
(c) He doesn't like his sense of humor.
(d) He feels he's a liar and overdoes everything.
11. What does Hat say that he learned from his mother?
(a) "When a man gets something he wants badly, he doesn't like it."
(b) "When man really want something , he get it."
(c) "When a man loses something, it's a blessing."
(d) "Life is strange, but nice."
12. How does the author describe the people of Miguel Street when they contemplate where Morgan went after the fire?
(a) As gossips.
(b) As judgmental people.
(c) As romancers.
(d) As fools.
13. What is the name of Morgan's eldest son?
(a) Malcolm.
(b) John.
(c) Chris.
(d) Andrew.
14. What is the heading on the paper Chris, Morgan's fourth son, shows the author?
(a) How to be a Pyrotechnicist.
(b) How to Raise Children.
(c) Pride and Prejudice.
(d) Crime and Punishment.
15. What does Hat have the kids beg for from the Americans?
(a) Comic books.
(b) Money.
(c) Chewing gum and chocolate.
(d) food.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does the author start crying soon after arriving in Port of Spain?
2. Who is Nathaniel?
3. What is Titus Hoyt wearing when the author first meets him?
4. How many children does Morgan have?
5. What do the people of Miguel Street call his collection of junk?
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