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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. From where does the author's mother fetch him?
(a) From Venezuela.
(b) From Tobago.
(c) From Arima.
(d) From Chaguanas.
2. After Big Foot leaves Miguel Street what is the last thing the author hears about him?
(a) He becomes a priest.
(b) He is a sailor on board a South American ship.
(c) He is a labourer in a quarry in Laventille.
(d) He married a very pretty Indian woman.
3. How many children does Laura have?
(a) Seven.
(b) Nine.
(c) Six.
(d) Eight.
4. What had Hat's mother told him when he was little?
(a) "Boy, never laugh at people ,they no like you."
(b) "Boy, you laughing all day, I bet you you go cry tonight."
(c) Boy, you look like little bird, people will laugh at you."
(d) Boy, be good brother to Edward."
5. What is Titus Hoyt wearing when the author first meets him?
(a) Tan shorts and a tan shirt.
(b) White shorts and a white shirt.
(c) Blue slacks and a white shirt.
(d) Jeans and a red shirt.
6. What is Morgan always thinking about?
(a) Love.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Food.
7. When Morgan's house burns down , what fire is it compared to?
(a) When the jail burned down in 1932.
(b) When the Treasury burned down in 1933.
(c) When the post office burned down in 1928.
(d) When the town hall burned down in 1930.
8. What does Mrs. Bhakcu look like?
(a) Five feet three inches high with a small waist.
(b) Four feet high and three feet wide.
(c) Five feet high and two two and a half feet wife.
(d) Four feet six inches high with a large waist.
9. What does Eddoes win every year?
(a) An award for being the best-dressed man.
(b) An award for the cleanest scavenging cart.
(c) An award for being the most popular man.
(d) An award for being the best business man.
10. What does Hat say that he learned from his mother?
(a) "Life is strange, but nice."
(b) "When a man loses something, it's a blessing."
(c) "When man really want something , he get it."
(d) "When a man gets something he wants badly, he doesn't like it."
11. What finally makes the people of Miguel Street laugh at Morgan?
(a) His children making fun of him.
(b) A joke he tells.
(c) Bhakcu beating him up.
(d) His wife holding him up by the waist.
12. What does Morgan do when he's having a fit of craziness?
(a) He beats on his iron fence and shouts at Bhakcu.
(b) He weeps and bemoans his fate.
(c) He laughs crazily and shouts at Hat.
(d) He rages at his wife and beats her.
13. Why is everyone on Miguel Street so afraid of Big Foot?
(a) He's so big and black.
(b) He's so silent and dangerous-looking.
(c) He killed a man.
(d) He's not afraid of anything.
14. How much money does the author's mother give him to go to a shop to buy bread and butter?
(a) Six cents.
(b) Four cents.
(c) Two cents.
(d) Five cents.
15. What does Titus Hoyt think will make him an educated man?
(a) Reading the Guardian.
(b) Going to England to study.
(c) Studying the Greek philosophers.
(d) Following a time-table every day.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who comforts the author when he starts crying?
2. What does Mr. Bhakcu do in the evenings?
3. What do the people of Miguel Street call his collection of junk?
4. What does the author do for the first time when he arrives in Port of Spain?
5. Morgan is more like what than a man?
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