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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The boys standing under the pipe in Chapter 3 devise a plan to retaliate against the head teacher. What is the plan?
(a) To stone him.
(b) To knock on his door and run.
(c) To put tacks on his chair.
(d) To write him a nasty letter.

2. Where do Trumper, Boy Blue and G. run to as they escape being chased in Chapter 7?
(a) The bathhouse.
(b) G.'s home.
(c) The forest.
(d) The open-air meeting.

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

4. When G. and Bob are walking toward the sea in Chapter Six, what does Bob want to do differently?
(a) Have a running race.
(b) Not talk while walking.
(c) Take two different routes to see who gets there first.
(d) Bike to the sea.

5. Whom do the boys end up running away from as they escape the landlord's gate?
(a) A couple.
(b) The overseer.
(c) The landlord.
(d) A large dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the sanitary water inspector checking for?

2. When G.'s mother sings in the house, in what way do the neighbors respond?

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

4. What did the old man once do that had money flowing through his hands "like the flood"?

5. Through what means does the author convey to the reader that Mr. Slime is no longer a schoolteacher?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Trumper, Boy Blue and G. decide to come forward and receive salvation in the open-air meeting?

2. How does the Foster family cope with the flood?

3. Why does the landlord say he may sell the land?

4. While G.'s friends Trumper and Boy Blue are excited and proud about G. going to high school, how does G.'s mother feel about it?

5. Describe the first assistant who makes high school tolerable for G.

6. What does G. remember about his family origins?

7. In Chapter 13, what is the difference between how the new landowner and the villagers feel about the homes they live in?

8. The shoemaker read a book by J.B. Priestly that he has never forgotten. What is the main point the shoemaker took away from that book?

9. G. sees things in the night that disturb him. What does he see?

10. After the landlords and overseers leave the village after assessing the roads after a flood, what do the young boys in town do for fun and why?

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