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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

7. How does the author describe the people of Miguel Street when they contemplate where Morgan went after the fire?
(a) As gossips.
(b) As fools.
(c) As judgmental people.
(d) As romancers.

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

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

10. What course does Titus Hoyt take for three months.
(a) A language course.
(b) A Red Cross first aid course.
(c) A writing course.
(d) A course in ancient Greek.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does the author's mother fetch him?

2. How much does Hat pay out after Big Foot's big fight?

3. What does Morgan try to be?

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

5. What does Morgan look like?

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