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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. Why does G.'s next door neighbor box her son's, Bob's, ears?
(a) He got into a fight with G.
(b) He was late to supper.
(c) He cursed out loud.
(d) He broke G.'s mother's pumpkin vine.

2. While a crowd of villagers wait in line to buy food from a vendor, whom do they let cut the line?
(a) The landlord.
(b) The overseer.
(c) A white man.
(d) No one cuts the line.

3. What does Pa do that he never told anyone else about?
(a) He touches a dead man.
(b) He has an affair.
(c) He nearly drowns.
(d) He writes a letter to the king.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. To where does G.'s maternal uncle emigrate?

2. What company will be hurt if there is a strike?

3. Why does Trumper shout out when the boys are trying be quiet on the trash heap?

4. What do some of the boys argue about when they receive their pennies?

5. What do the village boys do for fun and adventure on the railroad tracks?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 2, Miss Foster tells her story of meeting with the landlord. How does she feel about this meeting?

2. What is the relationship like between the villagers and the overseer?

3. When Trumper, Boy Blue and G. observe the fisherman in Chapter 6, what is he doing? Describe his attitude.

4. In what ways do the village overseers protect the villagers?

5. What are G.'s feelings about his identity in Barbados?

6. How does the schoolmaster looking a schoolboy in the eye make the boy feel as if he had done something wrong?

7. What does the reader know about Pa and Ma?

8. How does the author portray the village as being at war with itself in Chapter 1?

9. The schoolboys discuss the possible nonexistence of the king of England. Why?

10. Whom does Ma think Pa sounds like when he is talking in his sleep?

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