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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elias do after the second wife leaves his father?
(a) He gets engaged to a local girl.
(b) He gets a job on a ship.
(c) He spends his time studying for an exam.
(d) He becomes a waiter.

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

3. 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 love one another intensely.
(c) They are indifferent.
(d) They are very forgiving.

4. When Popo gets out of jail, how do the people of Miguel Street treat him?
(a) Like a hero, better than Hat or Bogart.
(b) Like a ruined man.
(c) Like a comedian.
(d) Like an ex-con.

5. What happens to Bogart in South America?
(a) He falls in love.
(b) He gets a tropical disease.
(c) He gets a venereal disease.
(d) He is arrested and escapes.

6. What is Pogo's second wife's name?
(a) Emilia .
(b) Ezmerelda.
(c) Emelda.
(d) Lucia.

7. How does George treat his second wife and his daughter?
(a) He plans starting to e preptar
(b) He starts beating them both savagely .
(c) He serves them breakfast sandwiches and coffee.
(d) He becomes the "model" husband and father.

8. How does George treat the author?
(a) He treats him like a true friend.
(b) He calls him names.
(c) He threatens to beat him up.
(d) He threatens to harm his mother.

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

10. What does Bogart do on his first trip away from Miguel Street?
(a) Works in the fields, buys a horse and gets sick.
(b) Becomes a cowboy, smuggles things and runs a brothel.,
(c) Falls in love, buys a house and gambles.
(d) Gets married, works in a bar and has a child.

11. How does George treat his children?
(a) He expects them to be great successes.
(b) He beats them savagely, too.
(c) He is ver protective of them.
(d) He dotes on them.

12. How long is Bogart gone the first time he disappears from Miguel Street?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Six months.
(c) Two months.
(d) Three months.

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Popo put in jail?

2. When Elias can't pass the exam for his license, what does he become?

3. What does Bogart buy?

4. How many years does B.Wordsworth expect to spend writing his poem?

5. Whom does Popo marry the second time?

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