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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author accomplish ?
(a) Gets a teaching position in Hoyt's school.
(b) Wrutes a book of poetry.
(c) Marries a very wealthy Trinidadian girl.
(d) Passes the exam qualifying him to become a doctor.

3. What does Popo's wife work as?
(a) A waitress.
(b) A laundress.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A cook.

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

5. What does the exam given at Hoyt's school qualify the person who passes it to become?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A dentist.

6. What does Man-man like to do to people?
(a) Amuse them with his jokes.
(b) Help them financially.
(c) Entertain them with his singing.
(d) Play tricks on them using his dog.

7. What was rare for a man's wife to do on Miguel Street?
(a) Work.
(b) Have other woman friends.
(c) Be unhappy.
(d) Keep a clean house.

8. What kind of poem does B. Wordsworth intend to write?
(a) A poem about Trinidad.
(b) A love poem.
(c) A poem on nature.
(d) The greatest poem in the world.

9. When Popo returns from his trip what does he do?
(a) He cries constantly and seeks consolation.
(b) He becomes angry and works constantly.
(c) He visits his friends on Miguel Street.
(d) He cheers up.

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

11. How many lines a month does B.Wordsworth intend to write on his poem.
(a) Two lines a month.
(b) Five lines a month.
(c) Ten lines a month.
(d) One line a month.

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

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

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

15. What is George's ultimate fate?
(a) He marries a third wife.
(b) He makes lots of money.
(c) He lives alone, becomes old and dies.
(d) He leaves Trinidad and settles in South America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dolly do at her wedding?

2. What does George do after his wife's funeral?

3. What does Elias do after the second wife leaves his father?

4. What does George's wife do?

5. Why is Popo put in jail?

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