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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Big Foot's father when Big Foot was still a boy?
(a) He became a devout priest again entering a monastery.
(b) He was killed in the oil field riots in 1937.
(c) He was put in jail for good.
(d) He went off to sea.

2. What makes Morgan crazy with rage?
(a) His wife nags him.
(b) He has no friends.
(c) Nobody uses his fireworks.
(d) He is poor.

3. What do Errol, Boyee and the author think will make the war end quickly?
(a) Making Anthony Eden Prime Minister.
(b) Getting more countries to join the war effort.
(c) American soldiers.
(d) Dropping more bombs on the Germans.

4. When did the author meet Titus Hoyt?
(a) A year after the war started.
(b) When he was a little boy.
(c) Four months after the war started.
(d) A year or two before the war after his father died.

5. What does Morgan start doing about two or three times a week?
(a) He weeps.
(b) He makes jokes.
(c) He explodes his fireworks.
(d) He challenges Bhakcu to fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morgan look like?

2. What does Mrs. Bhakcu look like?

3. When Titus Hoyt leaves the author and his mother what does he say?

4. What is Titus Hoyt wearing when the author first meets him?

5. What does Hat have the kids beg for from the Americans?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are Big Foot's parents, and what had hardened him as a child?

2. What makes Big Foot grow in prominence and respect on Miguel Street, and how does he lose that respect?

3. What happens to Eddoes's baby and what is her name?

4. What else was Morgan besides a comedian, and what did he do all day:?

5. Describe Big Foot and why the author is frightened of him.

6. What is the main focus of chapter 10 where Laura is introduced to the reader?

7. Why do the people of Miguel Street finally laugh at Morgan, and what happens to him then?

8. Who is Eddoes and what does he do for a living?

9. What does Big Foot do for a living and what happens one day on the beach when the author and Big Foot connect briefly?

10. Who is Morgan and what is his problem?

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