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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-17, Love, Love, Love, Alone, The Mechanical Genius, Caution, Until the Soldiers Came, Hat, How I Left Miguel Street.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What person in the crowd at the big fight does the author watch?
(a) A man cheering Big Foot on.
(b) A woman with her hands over her eyes.
(c) A woman eating peanuts.
(d) A man eating a banana.

2. How does the author's mother attempt to cure the cut on his shin?
(a) With leaves from the aloe vera plant.
(b) With sooty cobwebs soaked in rum.
(c) With gauze soaked in strong tea.
(d) With iodine.

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

4. What is surprising about how the people of Miguel Street regard other inhabitants in the street?
(a) They are indifferent.
(b) They love one another intensely.
(c) They are very forgiving.
(d) They admire extreme masculine brutality, drunkenness etc.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author's mother decide to do about the author when he becomes so wild and drinks so much.

2. What does Mrs. Bhakcu do when her husband beats her?

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

4. What happens at Dolly's wedding?

5. What is the heading on the paper Chris, Morgan's fourth son, shows the author?

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