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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 happened to Big Foot's father when Big Foot was still a boy?
(a) He went off to sea.
(b) He was put in jail for good.
(c) He became a devout priest again entering a monastery.
(d) He was killed in the oil field riots in 1937.

2. How does B. Wordsworth speak?
(a) With perfect English.
(b) With a heavy Trinidadian accent.
(c) With an American accent.
(d) With broken English.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bogart buy?

2. What does Titus Hoyt persuade the author's mother to do?

3. What is the most the author makes being involved in Hat's racket?

4. What is Titus Hoyt wearing when the author first meets him?

5. After Big Foot leaves Miguel Street what is the last thing the author hears about him?

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