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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 becomes a priest.
(c) He is a labourer in a quarry in Laventille.
(d) He married a very pretty Indian woman.

5. How does Big Foot's mother treat him?
(a) She spoils him.
(b) She beats him savagely.
(c) She protects him from his father.
(d) She brags about him to the neighbors.

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

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

8. How old is the author when he meets Titus Hoyt?
(a) Eight.
(b) Nine.
(c) Ten.
(d) Seven.

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

10. What does Titus Hoyt teach himself?
(a) Greek.
(b) Latin.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) French.

11. What had Hat's mother told him when he was little?
(a) Boy, be good brother to Edward."
(b) Boy, you look like little bird, people will laugh at you."
(c) "Boy, never laugh at people ,they no like you."
(d) "Boy, you laughing all day, I bet you you go cry tonight."

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

13. 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.

14. What happens to Big Foot when he and the author go to the sea-wall at Dockside?
(a) He goes swimming.
(b) He tells the author about his childhood.
(c) He and the author finally become good friends.
(d) He cuts his foot badly.

15. What does Big Foot do in the cinema one day?
(a) He throws his popcorn into the air.
(b) He puts his hands around Hat's throat.
(c) He screams at the top of his lungs.
(d) He sticks a knife in the back of the seat of the author's chair.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children does Morgan have?

2. How many children had Morgan's father had?

3. What makes Morgan crazy with rage?

4. How much money does the author's mother give him to go to a shop to buy bread and butter?

5. What does Titus Hoyt think will make him an educated man?

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