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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was rare for a man's wife to do on Miguel Street?

2. Who does Hat look and talk like?

3. What does Man-man declare he is?

4. What does George do after his wife's funeral?

5. How does B. Wordsworth speak?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bogart change after his third disappearance, and why does Sergeant Charles arrest him?

2. What does George begin to do after his wife's death, who does he marry next and what happens to them?

3. Where does Bogart go on his first disappearance from Miguel Street, how long is he gone and what does he do?

4. Describe Elias and tell what he does.

5. What do the author and B. Wordsworth do together and what does B. Wordsworth tell the author about the poem he wants to write?

6. What does Man-man declare about himself and what happens then?

7. Describe Man-man and the tricks he plays on people.

8. What kind of speech does Black Wordsworth have, and what does he claim about himself?

9. What happens to George's first wife and Elias?

10. What happens to B. Wordsworth and his poem?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. What does George do to his wife, children and the people on Miguel Street that makes him a scary man?

2. What happens after George's first wife's funeral?

3. What does George do after his second wife leaves him?

4. Choose two of the above topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1. Describe Big Foot and tell why the author finds him so scary.

2. Who are Big Foot's parents, and how did his mother treat him and how did that influence how he behaves?

3. Describe the incident when the author and Big Foot meet alone on the beach.

4. Choose two of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 3

1. What happens to B. Wordsworth and why do you think this happens to him?

2. Why do you suppose the author remains anonymous in the book but appears in every episode?

3. Why do you suppose V. S. Naipaul's characters are more like caricatures than real characters? Explain your reasons.

4. Choose two of the three topics to write on.

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