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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does George do when his second wife leaves him?
(a) He starts a brothel.
(b) He becomes very depressed.
(c) He becomes a drunk.
(d) He isolates himself from everyone on the street.

2. Whom does Popo marry the second time?
(a) The author's cousin.
(b) The autor's aunt.
(c) Hat's aunt.
(d) Bogart's sister.

3. How does George treat his children?
(a) He beats them savagely, too.
(b) He dotes on them.
(c) He expects them to be great successes.
(d) He is ver protective of them.

4. How does George treat his wife?
(a) He complains constantly about her house-cleaning.
(b) He's always giving her lectures.
(c) He treats her like a queen.
(d) He beats her savagely.

5. What does Popo do when he goes away after his wife leaves him?
(a) He buys a small house on another island.
(b) He beats up the man who stole his wife.
(c) He writes poems about his wife.
(d) He takes a long vacation.

6. In what time in history does the novel take place?
(a) During WWII.
(b) During the Civil War.
(c) During the Korean War.
(d) During WWI.

7. What does Sergeant Charles arrest Bogart for?
(a) Stealing.
(b) Being a public nuisance.
(c) Drunkeness.
(d) Bigamy.

8. Who is Black Wordsworth?
(a) A friend of Elias's.
(b) A friend of Man-man's.
(c) A mant who visits the author one day.
(d) A Carnival character of the island.

9. What does Dolly do at her wedding?
(a) She giggles.
(b) She cries.
(c) She sings.
(d) She does a solo dance.

10. What nationality is George's second wife?
(a) French.
(b) Trinidadian.
(c) Indian.
(d) American.

11. When Elias can't pass the exam for his license, what does he become?
(a) A cook.
(b) The driver of a scavenging cart.
(c) A boxer.
(d) A poet.

12. What does Elias do after his mother's death?
(a) He disappears on a ship.
(b) He drops out of the author's circle of friends.
(c) He becomes very ill.
(d) He becomes a hermit.

13. What finally happens to Man-man?
(a) He is sent to a private psychiatrist.
(b) The police take him away and put him under observation.
(c) He becomes a monk.
(d) He becomes a priest.

14. What is Popo like till his wife leaves him?
(a) A bully.
(b) A shy introvert.
(c) A nice, hard-working man.
(d) A clown.

15. Who liked Popo?
(a) Bogart.
(b) The author.
(c) Hat.
(d) The author's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the eventual fate of George's wife, the mother of his children?

2. How does Bogart make his money?

3. What is Bogart called before he is called Bogart?

4. What does Popo do when his wife leaves him?

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

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