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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the people of Miguel Street call his collection of junk?
(a) His materials.
(b) His goodies.
(c) His jewels.
(d) His fortune.

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

6. 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 the cleanest scavenging cart.
(d) An award for being the best business man.

7. Why is everyone on Miguel Street so afraid of Big Foot?
(a) He's so big and black.
(b) He's so silent and dangerous-looking.
(c) He's not afraid of anything.
(d) He killed a man.

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

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 many children had Morgan's father had?

2. What is Titus Hoyt wearing when the author first meets him?

3. How does Big Foot's mother treat him?

4. What do Errol, Boyee and the author think will make the war end quickly?

5. What does Mrs. Bhakcu look like?

(see the answer keys)

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