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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does George treat his second wife and his daughter?

3. What does Dolly do at her wedding?

4. What does Sergeant Charles arrest Bogart for?

5. Where does Popo travel to after his wife leaves him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Elias and tell what he does.

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

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

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

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

6. Describe George and what he does.

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

8. What is Elias's fate?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. What does Man-man do after his beloved dog dies?

2. Who is B. Wordsworth , how does he describe himself and how does he interact with the author?

3. What is B. Wordsworth's dream and how does he plan to accomplish it?

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1. How does Edward make money and from whom?

2. Whom does Edward imitate and in what ways?

3. What does Edward tell Hat concerning an American girl? How does the relationship with the American girl end?

4. Choose two of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 3

1. What happens to B. Wordsworth and why do you think this happens to him?

2. Why do you suppose the author remains anonymous in the book but appears in every episode?

3. Why do you suppose V. S. Naipaul's characters are more like caricatures than real characters? Explain your reasons.

4. Choose two of the three topics to write on.

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