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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 does Mrs. Bhakcu look like?

2. What is Laura's personality like?

3. What do the people of Miguel Street call his collection of junk?

4. What does Mrs. Morgan call Mrs. Bhakcu?

5. What is the name of the woman who is seen hurrying from Morgan's house one night?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Morgan and what is his problem?

2. What does Titus do because he is not really qualified to become a teacher?

3. Describe Big Foot and why the author is frightened of him.

4. What changes Eddoes's happy disposition?

5. Who is Laura, and how many children does she have?

6. What happens to Eddoes's baby and what is her name?

7. What makes Big Foot grow in prominence and respect on Miguel Street, and how does he lose that respect?

8. What else was Morgan besides a comedian, and what did he do all day:?

9. What is the main focus of chapter 10 where Laura is introduced to the reader?

10. Why do the people of Miguel Street finally laugh at Morgan, and what happens to him then?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. What is Uncle Bhakcu's dream?

2. How does Uncle Bhakcu take his frustrations out on his wife, and why does he have these frustrations?

3. What does Bhakcu do after he gives up on his dream?

4. Choose two of the three 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 when Lorna tells Laura she's pregnant?

2. Who is Eddoes , what does he do for a living and how does he use that job to make extra money?

3. What causes Eddoes to lose his good spirits and what causes his good spirits to return?

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

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