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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. What is G. celebrating in Chapter 1?
2. When the shoemaker, Mr. Foster and the others talk about the possibility of a strike or losing their jobs, whom does the shoemaker say they should leave the thinking to?
3. What does Ma have Pa do to get him to stop thinking about dying?
4. What does Pa do that he never told anyone else about?
5. What does the old man say Mr. Slime is telling the people they should own?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What does Ma do when she thinks she hears Pa snoring loudly one night?
3. What information does the old drunken woman give the villagers in Chapter 9? How is it taken?
4. What sets the shoemaker apart from the other villagers?
5. What is Pa's general take on the way things are in the village concerning Mr. Slime?
6. In the beginning of Chapter 6, G. sees birds such as blackbirds, sparrows and doves. Which birds does he note are the most common victims of the human's traps? How are they compared to the doves?
7. After being away for three years, what does G. learn about Trumper?
8. What political and real estate changes have taken place in the village by Chapter 12?
9. G. sees things in the night that disturb him. What does he see?
10. Why does the landlord say he may sell the land?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How do the riots in Trinidad, the village dock workers' strike and cricket teams end up belonging in the same line of events in the thoughts of the shoemaker? How does he come to the conclusions about what Barbados should be like?
Essay Topic 2
What are G.'s feeling about the pebble in Chapter 11? Can these feelings be related to anything or anywhere else in the book? Who or where and why?
Essay Topic 3
When the villagers learn that there is fighting going on in the city, they cannot get any further information except that the fighting will spread to them.
How must this have made them feel? Explain each major character's emotions during this tense time.
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