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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pa think that Ma would not have believed if she were alive?
(a) How old he looks.
(b) World War II.
(c) Television.
(d) The way things have changed.

2. What job does the overseer take on?
(a) Tax collector.
(b) Head school master.
(c) Supervisor of roads.
(d) Landlord.

3. Who tells Pa that G. is going away?
(a) Miss Foster.
(b) G.'s mother.
(c) Mrs. Creighton.
(d) Bob's mother.

4. Where is the drinking water for the house kept?
(a) It had to be purchased.
(b) In the faucet.
(c) In a barrel.
(d) In the spring.

5. What author makes the shoemaker begin to think about colonial governors?
(a) Dickens.
(b) Oscar Wilde.
(c) J.B. Priestly.
(d) George Lamming.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is one of the islands named by Pa to which tribes were shipped by boat?

2. Where is Ma having pain?

3. What does Pa think the landlord should do about the land?

4. While a crowd of villagers wait in line to buy food from a vendor, whom do they let cut the line?

5. What is considered by the white man to be the best of Africa's produce?

(see the answer key)

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