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

2. How many children does Laura have?
(a) Six.
(b) Seven.
(c) Nine.
(d) Eight.

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

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

5. What does Mrs. Morgan look like?
(a) Five and a half feet tall with a small waist.
(b) Five feet eight inches tall and with lots of muscles.
(c) A little over six feet tall and built like a weight-lifter.
(d) Five feet tall and built like a wrestler.

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

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

8. 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 went off to sea.
(c) He was put in jail for good.
(d) He was killed in the oil field riots in 1937.

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

10. What is the name of Eddoes' baby?
(a) Delight.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Star.

11. Why does the author start crying soon after arriving in Port of Spain?
(a) He gets lost.
(b) He doesn't like Miguel Street.
(c) He is hungry.
(d) He can't make friends.

12. What bet does the author place on Big Foot's big fight?
(a) Ten dollars that Big Foot would win.
(b) Six cents that Big Foot would lose.
(c) Ten cents that Big Foot would win.
(d) Twenty cents that Big Foot would lose.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Hat's mother told him when he was little?

2. What does Big Foot do in the cinema one day?

3. What person in the crowd at the big fight does the author watch?

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

5. What happens to Big Foot when he and the author go to the sea-wall at Dockside?

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