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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-11, The Coward, The Pyrotechnicist, Titus Hoyt, I.A., The Maternal Instinct, The Blue Cart.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eddoes win every year?
(a) An award for being the best business man.
(b) An award for the cleanest scavenging cart.
(c) An award for being the most popular man.
(d) An award for being the best-dressed man.

2. How does the author describe the people of Miguel Street when they contemplate where Morgan went after the fire?
(a) As romancers.
(b) As fools.
(c) As gossips.
(d) As judgmental people.

3. What does Titus Hoyt ask the author to do?
(a) Write a poem.
(b) Learn Latin.
(c) Write to the Editor of the Trinidad Guardian.
(d) Write to the Mayor of Port of Spain.

4. What does Morgan look like?
(a) He is medium-sized.
(b) He is large with a round face.
(c) He is small with very small hands and thin wrists.
(d) He is chubby with fat hands.

5. What does Hat say that he learned from his mother?
(a) "When a man loses something, it's a blessing."
(b) "When man really want something , he get it."
(c) "When a man gets something he wants badly, he doesn't like it."
(d) "Life is strange, but nice."

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Big Foot when he and the author go to the sea-wall at Dockside?

2. What makes Morgan crazy with rage?

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

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

5. What does Elias do after his mother's death?

(see the answer key)

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