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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Boyee compare Laura's face to?
(a) A pancake.
(b) A pig's face.
(c) A motor-car battery.
(d) A pumpkin.
2. What happens to Big Foot when he and the author go to the sea-wall at Dockside?
(a) He cuts his foot badly.
(b) He goes swimming.
(c) He and the author finally become good friends.
(d) He tells the author about his childhood.
3. From where does the author's mother fetch him?
(a) From Arima.
(b) From Venezuela.
(c) From Tobago.
(d) From Chaguanas.
4. Who is Nathaniel?
(a) A street thief.
(b) The one man Laura has two babies by.
(c) Laura's mean brother.
(d) Laura's father.
5. What is the heading on the paper Chris, Morgan's fourth son, shows the author?
(a) Crime and Punishment.
(b) How to be a Pyrotechnicist.
(c) Pride and Prejudice.
(d) How to Raise Children.
6. What does the author do for the first time when he arrives in Port of Spain?
(a) Takes a city bus.
(b) Attends a public school.
(c) Becomes afraid.
(d) Hears a calypso song.
7. What course does Titus Hoyt take for three months.
(a) A course in ancient Greek.
(b) A Red Cross first aid course.
(c) A writing course.
(d) A language course.
8. What does Hat say that he learned from his mother?
(a) "When a man gets something he wants badly, he doesn't like it."
(b) "Life is strange, but nice."
(c) "When man really want something , he get it."
(d) "When a man loses something, it's a blessing."
9. What does Mrs. Morgan look like?
(a) Five and a half feet tall with a small waist.
(b) Five feet tall and built like a wrestler.
(c) A little over six feet tall and built like a weight-lifter.
(d) Five feet eight inches tall and with lots of muscles.
10. How many children does Morgan have?
(a) Ten.
(b) Five.
(c) Nine.
(d) Twelve.
11. Why does the author start crying soon after arriving in Port of Spain?
(a) He doesn't like Miguel Street.
(b) He is hungry.
(c) He gets lost.
(d) He can't make friends.
12. What finally makes the people of Miguel Street laugh at Morgan?
(a) His children making fun of him.
(b) Bhakcu beating him up.
(c) His wife holding him up by the waist.
(d) A joke he tells.
13. How old is the author when he meets Titus Hoyt?
(a) Ten.
(b) Seven.
(c) Nine.
(d) Eight.
14. What is the name of the woman who is seen hurrying from Morgan's house one night?
(a) Maria Alcott.
(b) Mary Chambers.
(c) Lucy White.
(d) Teresa Blake.
15. What does Morgan look like?
(a) He is chubby with fat hands.
(b) He is medium-sized.
(c) He is small with very small hands and thin wrists.
(d) He is large with a round face.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does the author's mother attempt to cure the cut on his shin?
2. Who comforts the author when he starts crying?
3. What does Morgan do when he's having a fit of craziness?
4. When did the author meet Titus Hoyt?
5. How does the author describe the people of Miguel Street when they contemplate where Morgan went after the fire?
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