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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the headmaster's overwhelming feeling when he looks inside the envelope and thinks about its contents?
(a) Confusion as to what he should do.
(b) Guilt at what he sees.
(c) Love because of the photo he sees.
(d) Fear over the contents.

3. What had the head teacher's wife once done to him when he returned home drunk?
(a) She whipped him.
(b) She called the police.
(c) She threw him out.
(d) She threw his clothes out the window.

4. Why does the mother groan in Chapter 1?
(a) She is hungry.
(b) She feels that the kitchen is in a mess.
(c) She is in a lot of pain.
(d) She has lost her money.

5. When an old woman tells a schoolboy she had once been a slave, what does his teacher tell him?
(a) Not in Barbados and a very long time ago.
(b) In Barbados and a very long time ago.
(c) In America, a hundred years ago.
(d) In England, a short time ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the neighbors refer to G's day of celebration in order to console him?

2. Which season in the village could change everything?

3. Nine-year-old G. sees things in his bed when his eyes open. What does he see?

4. What does Ma have Pa do to get him to stop thinking about dying?

5. What new venture does Mr. Slime begin?

(see the answer key)

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