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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ma have Pa do to get him to stop thinking about dying?
(a) Call a neighbor to talk.
(b) Look at old photos of themselves.
(c) Say a prayer together.
(d) Talk about it with her.

2. What delicacy is being sold by a road vendor in Chapter 2?
(a) Black pudding and souse.
(b) Cheesecake.
(c) Lobster boiled in chicken broth.
(d) Oysters and crabs.

3. Who does the old woman say is Mr. Slime's enemy?
(a) Mr. Creighton.
(b) Mr. Foster.
(c) The headmaster.
(d) Bob's father.

4. Which season in the village could change everything?
(a) Winter season.
(b) Tourist season.
(c) Flood season.
(d) The hot summer.

5. What is Barbados known as in comparison with the Mother Country?
(a) Island England.
(b) Little Barbados.
(c) The Queen's Country.
(d) Little England.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had the head teacher's wife once done to him when he returned home drunk?

2. What happens to G.'s pigeon?

3. How does the water inspector check the drinking water?

4. Why does the old man keep looking up at the landlord's house before he retires to bed?

5. What makes the drinking water give G. a belly ache?

(see the answer key)

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