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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years does B.Wordsworth expect to spend writing his poem?
(a) Three years.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Twenty-two years.

2. What does Popo do when he goes away after his wife leaves him?
(a) He takes a long vacation.
(b) He writes poems about his wife.
(c) He buys a small house on another island.
(d) He beats up the man who stole his wife.

3. How long is Bogart gone the second time he disappears from Trinidad?
(a) Five months.
(b) Four months.
(c) Three months.
(d) A year.

4. In what time in history does the novel take place?
(a) During WWII.
(b) During the Korean War.
(c) During the Civil War.
(d) During WWI.

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

6. What does Bogart buy?
(a) Sweepstakes tickets and a sewing machine.
(b) Movie magazines.
(c) A sewing machine and blue, white and brown chalks.
(d) Thread of many colors and thimbles.

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

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

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

10. What do the people on Miguel Street think Popo is?
(a) A "man-woman".
(b) A jerk.
(c) A hero.
(d) A natural poet.

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

12. Who is Black Wordsworth?
(a) A friend of Elias's.
(b) A Carnival character of the island.
(c) A friend of Man-man's.
(d) A mant who visits the author one day.

13. What finally happens to Man-man?
(a) He is sent to a private psychiatrist.
(b) He becomes a priest.
(c) The police take him away and put him under observation.
(d) He becomes a monk.

14. Where does Popo travel to after his wife leaves him?
(a) Carrera.
(b) Tobago.
(c) Venezuela.
(d) Arima.

15. What does Sergeant Charles arrest Bogart for?
(a) Being a public nuisance.
(b) Stealing.
(c) Bigamy.
(d) Drunkeness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the author accomplish ?

3. Who liked Popo?

4. What does Dolly do at her wedding?

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

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