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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. In what time in history does the novel take place?
(a) During the Korean War.
(b) During the Civil War.
(c) During WWI.
(d) During WWII.

2. Why is Popo put in jail?
(a) He stabs a man.
(b) He opens a brothel.
(c) He beats his second wife savagely.
(d) He steals things and remodels them to sell.

3. What nationality is George's second wife?
(a) Trinidadian.
(b) Indian.
(c) French.
(d) American.

4. What does Elias do after his mother's death?
(a) He disappears on a ship.
(b) He becomes very ill.
(c) He drops out of the author's circle of friends.
(d) He becomes a hermit.

5. What happens to Bogart in South America?
(a) He falls in love.
(b) He is arrested and escapes.
(c) He gets a tropical disease.
(d) He gets a venereal disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bogart called before he is called Bogart?

2. How does George treat his children?

3. Whom does Popo marry the second time?

4. How many years does B.Wordsworth expect to spend writing his poem?

5. What does Popo do when he goes away after his wife leaves him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when Man-man's dog dies?

3. What happens to George's first wife and Elias?

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

5. What does George begin to do after his wife's death, who does he marry next and what happens to them?

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

7. Describe George and what he does.

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

9. Describe Elias and tell what he does.

10. Where does Bogart go on his first disappearance from Miguel Street, how long is he gone and what does he do?

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