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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. How long is Bogart gone the second time he disappears from Trinidad?
(a) Five months.
(b) A year.
(c) Three months.
(d) Four months.

2. What does the author accomplish ?
(a) Marries a very wealthy Trinidadian girl.
(b) Wrutes a book of poetry.
(c) Gets a teaching position in Hoyt's school.
(d) Passes the exam qualifying him to become a doctor.

3. Who is Black Wordsworth?
(a) A friend of Man-man's.
(b) A mant who visits the author one day.
(c) A friend of Elias's.
(d) A Carnival character of the island.

4. What is Popo like till his wife leaves him?
(a) A clown.
(b) A bully.
(c) A shy introvert.
(d) A nice, hard-working man.

5. What is surprising about how the people of Miguel Street regard other inhabitants in the street?
(a) They are indifferent.
(b) They are very forgiving.
(c) They love one another intensely.
(d) They admire extreme masculine brutality, drunkenness etc.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elias do after his mother's death?

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

3. What does Sergeant Charles arrest Bogart for?

4. What nationality is George's second wife?

5. After Elias tries repeatedly to pass the exam and can't, what does he first become?

Short Essay Questions

1. How long is Bogart gone the second time he disappears and how does he change?

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

3. Describe Elias and tell what he does.

4. Who is Popo and who is he married to?

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

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

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

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

9. Give a short description of Bogart, how he interacts with his friends, and what he does for a living.

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

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