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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Bhakcu look like?
(a) Four feet high and three feet wide.
(b) Four feet six inches high with a large waist.
(c) Five feet three inches high with a small waist.
(d) Five feet high and two two and a half feet wife.

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

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

4. What is the name of Morgan's eldest son?
(a) Malcolm.
(b) John.
(c) Andrew.
(d) Chris.

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

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

7. When Morgan's house burns down , what fire is it compared to?
(a) When the jail burned down in 1932.
(b) When the town hall burned down in 1930.
(c) When the Treasury burned down in 1933.
(d) When the post office burned down in 1928.

8. What does Hat have the kids beg for from the Americans?
(a) Chewing gum and chocolate.
(b) Money.
(c) Comic books.
(d) food.

9. When Titus Hoyt leaves the author and his mother what does he say?
(a) Adios.
(b) So long.
(c) Cheerio.
(d) Bye bye.

10. What happened to Big Foot's father when Big Foot was still a boy?
(a) He became a devout priest again entering a monastery.
(b) He was put in jail for good.
(c) He went off to sea.
(d) He was killed in the oil field riots in 1937.

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

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

13. What do Errol, Boyee and the author think will make the war end quickly?
(a) American soldiers.
(b) Getting more countries to join the war effort.
(c) Making Anthony Eden Prime Minister.
(d) Dropping more bombs on the Germans.

14. 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) Four months after the war started.
(d) When he was a little boy.

15. What makes Morgan crazy with rage?
(a) His wife nags him.
(b) He is poor.
(c) Nobody uses his fireworks.
(d) He has no friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. How fast did Big Foot run the hundred yards at school according to the people of Trinidad?

2. What is Morgan always thinking about?

3. What does Titus Hoyt persuade the author's mother to do?

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

5. What does Mr. Bhakcu do in the evenings?

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