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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What finally makes the people of Miguel Street laugh at Morgan?
(a) His wife holding him up by the waist.
(b) His children making fun of him.
(c) Bhakcu beating him up.
(d) A joke he tells.

2. How much does Hat pay out after Big Foot's big fight?
(a) Twenty dollars.
(b) Two hundred dollars.
(c) Fifty dollars.
(d) A hundred dollars.

3. What is the name of the woman who is seen hurrying from Morgan's house one night?
(a) Lucy White.
(b) Teresa Blake.
(c) Maria Alcott.
(d) Mary Chambers.

4. What does Big Foot build during his short time as a carpenter?
(a) A kitchen cabinet.
(b) Two or three enormous wardrobes.
(c) Two large chests.
(d) A small storage house.

5. What is Titus Hoyt wearing when the author first meets him?
(a) White shorts and a white shirt.
(b) Tan shorts and a tan shirt.
(c) Jeans and a red shirt.
(d) Blue slacks and a white shirt.

6. Who comforts the author when he starts crying?
(a) Morgan.
(b) Hat.
(c) A little girl in a pink dress.
(d) His mother.

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

9. What does Titus Hoyt think will make him an educated man?
(a) Reading the Guardian.
(b) Studying the Greek philosophers.
(c) Following a time-table every day.
(d) Going to England to study.

10. What does Titus Hoyt ask the author to do?
(a) Learn Latin.
(b) Write to the Editor of the Trinidad Guardian.
(c) Write to the Mayor of Port of Spain.
(d) Write a poem.

11. What is the heading on the paper Chris, Morgan's fourth son, shows the author?
(a) How to be a Pyrotechnicist.
(b) How to Raise Children.
(c) Crime and Punishment.
(d) Pride and Prejudice.

12. What is Laura's personality like?
(a) Vivacious and gay.
(b) Sad and sorrowful.
(c) Shy and introverted.
(d) Funny and superficial.

13. After Big Foot leaves Miguel Street what is the last thing the author hears about him?
(a) He is a sailor on board a South American ship.
(b) He married a very pretty Indian woman.
(c) He becomes a priest.
(d) He is a labourer in a quarry in Laventille.

14. What does the author do for the first time when he arrives in Port of Spain?
(a) Attends a public school.
(b) Hears a calypso song.
(c) Becomes afraid.
(d) Takes a city bus.

15. When did the author meet Titus Hoyt?
(a) A year after the war started.
(b) A year or two before the war after his father died.
(c) When he was a little boy.
(d) Four months after the war started.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bet does the author place on Big Foot's big fight?

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

3. How many children does Laura have?

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

5. Why does the author start crying soon after arriving in Port of Spain?

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