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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When an old woman tells a schoolboy she had once been a slave, what does his teacher tell him?
2. Which season in the village could change everything?
3. Whom do Mr. Foster and the overseer's brother ask for an opinion about Mr. Slime?
4. What is Barbados known as in comparison with the Mother Country?
5. In what way is G. embarrassed as he is being bathed outside in his yard?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way does Pa compare Mr. Slime to Moses?
2. The shoemaker makes a little speech in Chapter 5 to the men he is standing with as they watch the villagers buy food from the cart. What is the point of his speech?
3. What has given both G. and his mother some anxiety and confidence about how things will be in Trinidad for G.?
4. Why is it that Ma doesn't believe that Pa should be comparing Mr. Slime to Moses?
5. There are people known as "poor whites" on the island. What is their lot in life?
6. What is the pattern of the customers on the "corner"?
7. Why does G. want to leave the nice pebble he found on the beach where he can find it once again?
8. What does the reader know about Pa and Ma?
9. 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?
10. What is the story Boy Blue tells Trumper about Jon and the two weddings?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter 3, the schoolmaster is deciding what to do about the photos he believes belong to Mr. Slime. What different scenarios and outcomes go through his mind? Are they legitimate?
Essay Topic 2
The overseer tries to disrupt the open-air meeting to "arrest" the boys in Chapter 7.
Who does the overseer really represent?
Why does the author have the boys "saved" by the preacher?
Consider the role of religion in the village when you form you answers.
Essay Topic 3
When G. attends high school, he must continue to live in the village. How did living in the village make it seem that he is living between two different worlds? What are the differences between the two worlds?
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