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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was rare for a man's wife to do on Miguel Street?
(a) Be unhappy.
(b) Have other woman friends.
(c) Work.
(d) Keep a clean house.

2. What finally happens to Man-man?
(a) He is sent to a private psychiatrist.
(b) The police take him away and put him under observation.
(c) He becomes a priest.
(d) He becomes a monk.

3. When Elias can't pass the exam for his license, what does he become?
(a) A boxer.
(b) The driver of a scavenging cart.
(c) A poet.
(d) A cook.

4. When Popo returns from his trip what does he do?
(a) He becomes angry and works constantly.
(b) He visits his friends on Miguel Street.
(c) He cries constantly and seeks consolation.
(d) He cheers up.

5. Who is Popo?
(a) The author's uncle.
(b) A local carpenter.
(c) A garbage man.
(d) A comedian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Pogo's second wife's name?

2. Who does Hat look and talk like?

3. What is George's ultimate fate?

4. In what time in history does the novel take place?

5. What does the exam given at Hoyt's school qualify the person who passes it to become?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes Popo change from a nice, hard-working , happy man to a heavy drinker and what makes him travel to Arima?

2. Describe Man-man and the tricks he plays on people.

3. Describe Elias and tell what he does.

4. What does Popo do after he beats up his wife's lover and then what happens to him?

5. What do the author and B. Wordsworth do together and what does B. Wordsworth tell the author about the poem he wants to write?

6. What kind of speech does Black Wordsworth have, and what does he claim about himself?

7. Describe George and what he does.

8. What does the author talk to Man-Man about, and what is the particular characteristic of Man-man's speech?

9. What happens to B. Wordsworth and his poem?

10. What does Man-man declare about himself and what happens then?

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