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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, why were the lands originally taken from the Jamaicans?
(a) To be cleared for agriculture.
(b) To try to help the native farmers.
(c) To build apartment buildings.
(d) To prove English power.

2. What does Boy say the sign was for his family to leave Jamaica?
(a) The changing political leaders.
(b) The hurricane season.
(c) The death of Miss Mattie.
(d) The fires in the village.

3. What does Clare study while in London?
(a) Fine arts and writing.
(b) Ancient Greek and French.
(c) Math and science.
(d) Literature and the classics.

4. Why do the Jamaican orphans have light skin?
(a) They are interracial.
(b) They are malnourished.
(c) They don't have light skin.
(d) Their parents abandoned them for the United States.

5. What does Jennie make Clare question in "Chapter 4"?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Why she wasn't taken to Jamaica.
(c) If she's been lucky all her life.
(d) Her biological father.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Chapter 4," what ethnicity is Boy's girlfriend?

2. In "Chapter 1," how are the races of the people in the back of the truck described?

3. What does Clare do at the end of "Chapter 4"?

4. What movie does Boy see at the drive-in theater?

5. In "Chapter 5," who does Clare imagine comes to visit her in a taxi?

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