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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What point of view does the author use in Chapter 3?
(a) Unreliable first person.
(b) First person.
(c) Third person, omniscient.
(d) Second person.

2. What role does Bob play in order to get past his mother, G.'s mother and Miss Foster?
(a) He acts like a lion.
(b) He pretends he is a bear.
(c) He becomes a rabbit.
(d) He is just himself.

3. Through what means does the author convey to the reader that Mr. Slime is no longer a schoolteacher?
(a) Dialogue between Mr. Slime and the headmaster.
(b) Dialogue between an older couple.
(c) Mr. Slime speaking in the first person.
(d) Direct narration.

4. Why does the old man keep looking up at the landlord's house before he retires to bed?
(a) He is putting a bad spell on the landlord.
(b) He is suspicious of what goes on there.
(c) He wonders what it feels like to be big and great.
(d) He is praying for the landlord.

5. Why does Miss Foster go to see the landlord?
(a) To ask about her husband and her home.
(b) To get her rent back.
(c) To get help.
(d) To pay the rent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to G.'s pigeon?

2. What does the old man say Mr. Slime is telling the people they should own?

3. When an old woman tells a schoolboy she had once been a slave, what does his teacher tell him?

4. Who does the headmaster put to the back of his mind as being too big and important to deal with yet, after he has seen the contents of the envelope?

5. What device does the author use to let the reader know that the head teacher likes to drink ?

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