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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 does Dolly do at her wedding?

2. What do the men play in Bogart's room when he's in to British Guiana?

3. When Popo returns from his trip what does he do?

4. What is George's ultimate fate?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author talk to Man-Man about, and what is the particular characteristic of Man-man's speech?

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

3. Describe George and what he does.

4. Who is Popo and who is he married to?

5. What makes Popo change from a nice, hard-working , happy man to a heavy drinker and what makes him travel to Arima?

6. What does Popo do after he beats up his wife's lover and then what happens to him?

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

8. What man with the name of a famous poet stops by the author's house one day, and what does he tell the author?

9. What is Elias's fate?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. What does Man-man do after his beloved dog dies?

2. Who is B. Wordsworth , how does he describe himself and how does he interact with the author?

3. What is B. Wordsworth's dream and how does he plan to accomplish it?

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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