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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 does Dolly, George's daughter, do after George's second wife leaves him.
(a) She threatens to kill her father.
(b) She becomes a cook in the brothel.
(c) She runs away from home.
(d) SHe becomes a laundress.

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

3. What is the name of Dolly's husband?
(a) Knife.
(b) Sword.
(c) Razor.
(d) Dagger.

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

5. What is the eventual fate of George's wife, the mother of his children?
(a) She seeks refuge in the author's house.
(b) She runs away and hides on board a ship.
(c) She leaves George and moves in wtih another man.
(d) She dies from the beatings and is given a shabby funeral.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Popo put in jail?

2. To whom does George marry off his daughter, Dolly?

3. In what time in history does the novel take place?

4. How long is Bogart gone the first time he disappears from Miguel Street?

5. What does Bogart buy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe George and what he does.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How long is Bogart gone the second time he disappears and how does he change?

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