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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Titus Hoyt persuade the author's mother to do?
(a) Feed the author fish three times a week.
(b) Give the author half a pint of milk a day.
(c) Give the author lots of green vegetables.
(d) Bake home-made bread for the author.

2. What does Mrs. Morgan call Mrs. Bhakcu?
(a) Lazy woman.
(b) Thin- foot woman.
(c) Chubby little woman.
(d) Dumb little woman.

3. What does Morgan try to be?
(a) A policeman.
(b) A waiter.
(c) A comedian.
(d) A garbage man.

4. What is Morgan always thinking about?
(a) Love.
(b) Food.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Beauty.

5. What does Morgan look like?
(a) He is small with very small hands and thin wrists.
(b) He is medium-sized.
(c) He is chubby with fat hands.
(d) He is large with a round face.

6. Who is Lorna?
(a) Laura's sister.
(b) Laura's mother.
(c) Laura's daughter who gets pregnant.
(d) Nathaniel's other girlfriend.

7. Who is Nathaniel?
(a) Laura's mean brother.
(b) The one man Laura has two babies by.
(c) Laura's father.
(d) A street thief.

8. From where does the author's mother fetch him?
(a) From Chaguanas.
(b) From Tobago.
(c) From Venezuela.
(d) From Arima.

9. How does the author's mother attempt to cure the cut on his shin?
(a) With iodine.
(b) With sooty cobwebs soaked in rum.
(c) With gauze soaked in strong tea.
(d) With leaves from the aloe vera plant.

10. What is the most the author makes being involved in Hat's racket?
(a) Ten cents.
(b) Twelve cents.
(c) Five cents.
(d) A quarter.

11. What does Eddoes win every year?
(a) An award for the cleanest scavenging cart.
(b) An award for being the most popular man.
(c) An award for being the best-dressed man.
(d) An award for being the best business man.

12. How much money does the author's mother give him to go to a shop to buy bread and butter?
(a) Four cents.
(b) Five cents.
(c) Six cents.
(d) Two cents.

13. 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 a man loses something, it's a blessing."
(d) "When man really want something , he get it."

14. What is Big Foot's father?
(a) A priest.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A carpenter.
(d) A farmer.

15. What does Morgan do when he's having a fit of craziness?
(a) He rages at his wife and beats her.
(b) He beats on his iron fence and shouts at Bhakcu.
(c) He laughs crazily and shouts at Hat.
(d) He weeps and bemoans his fate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comforts the author when he starts crying?

2. What is the name of Eddoes' baby?

3. How does the author describe the people of Miguel Street when they contemplate where Morgan went after the fire?

4. What does Hat have the kids beg for from the Americans?

5. When Morgan's house burns down , what fire is it compared to?

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