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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What emotion does Bob's mother express when Bob smiles at G. being bathed?
(a) Hate.
(b) Love.
(c) Fury.
(d) Humor.

3. How does the water inspector check the drinking water?
(a) He scrapes the side of the container with a long spoon.
(b) He tests it in a lab.
(c) He tastes it.
(d) He never checks it.

4. From whom does Boy Blue tell the others to keep the secret of the fisherman?
(a) G.'s mother.
(b) Bob's mother.
(c) Mr. Slime.
(d) Bob.

5. An old woman walks circles in the night outside in Chapter 2. Why?
(a) She is drunk.
(b) She is very lost.
(c) She has a high fever.
(d) She is practicing a dance.

6. Which two women get into a physical brawl in Chapter 5?
(a) Miss Foster and Bob's mother.
(b) Miss Foster and Sheila Grimes.
(c) Ma and the old woman.
(d) Sheila Grimes and Baby Parker.

7. What magical words is Bob supposed to say just before a large wave touches his toes?
(a) "I will overcome you."
(b) "Sea sesame."
(c) "Sea, come no further."
(d) "I am the master of the sea."

8. What happens to G.'s grandfather before his mother is born?
(a) He dies.
(b) He goes to America.
(c) He joins the army.
(d) He is in a car accident.

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

10. 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?
(a) His boss.
(b) The students.
(c) His wife.
(d) Mr. Slime.

11. What company will be hurt if there is a strike?
(a) The Friendly Society.
(b) Penny Bank.
(c) Jones and Creighton Shipping.
(d) England Shipping.

12. Who keeps the overseer from disturbing the preacher's conversion of sinners?
(a) The crowd and the rebuker in the back.
(b) Mr. Creighton.
(c) The three boys who ran away.
(d) Mr. Slime's speech.

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

14. Whom does Jon end up marrying?
(a) Bots.
(b) Nobody.
(c) Susie.
(d) Jen.

15. Which woman had children by a baker, a butcher and an unknown man?
(a) Miss Foster.
(b) Bob's mother.
(c) Ma.
(d) G. mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the white gentleman get angry when Gordon tries to sell him a fowlcock in Chapter 2?

2. What is Barbados known as in comparison with the Mother Country?

3. Why do Trumper, Boy Blue and G. sneak onto the landlord's grounds at night in Chapter 7?

4. What happens to Boy Blue as he is catching crabs on the wild side of the sea?

5. What happens to the Foster family?

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