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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After Elias tries repeatedly to pass the exam and can't, what does he first become?
(a) A sailor.
(b) A teacher in Hoyt's school.
(c) A policeman.
(d) A sanitation inspector.

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

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

5. What does George do when his second wife leaves him?
(a) He isolates himself from everyone on the street.
(b) He starts a brothel.
(c) He becomes a drunk.
(d) He becomes very depressed.

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

7. What does George do after his wife's funeral?
(a) He apologizes to his two children and begs their forgiveness.
(b) He vows never to beat any family member again.
(c) He reforms and becomes a new man.
(d) He leaves for a week and comes back with a new wife.

8. What does George's wife do?
(a) All the family' work as a house-cleaner.
(b) All the family's work as a waitress.
(c) All the family's work as a laundress.
(d) All the family's work as a cook.

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

10. Who is Popo?
(a) The author's uncle.
(b) A comedian.
(c) A garbage man.
(d) A local carpenter.

11. To whom does George marry off his daughter, Dolly?
(a) To a prosperous, rich man.
(b) To Hat's cousin.
(c) To a small, nasty man.
(d) To an American.

12. What does Popo do when his wife leaves him?
(a) He cries a lot.
(b) He works very hard.
(c) He takes up drinking.
(d) He starts sleeping around.

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

14. What do the men play in Bogart's room when he's in to British Guiana?
(a) Poker.
(b) Wappee.
(c) Bridge.
(d) Gin Rummy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4 with whom does Elias start spending a lot of time?

2. What does Dolly, George's daughter, do after George's second wife leaves him.

3. How long is Bogart gone the second time he disappears from Trinidad?

4. What adjective describes George best?

5. What are the names of George's two children?

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