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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Christopher say his grandmother used to call "the sleep of the righteous"?
(a) A deep sleep.
(b) Death.
(c) A room protected by guards.
(d) Sleeping in beds.

2. How do the soldiers feel about the house, in "Chapter 1"?
(a) They ignore it.
(b) They want to burn it.
(c) They try to take it over.
(d) They are grateful to the people who live there.

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

4. In "Chapter 2," how is Christopher's childhood home described?
(a) As being covered in garbage.
(b) As being devoid of love.
(c) As being ruined by a hurricane.
(d) As being colorful.

5. Whom does Paul have help him bury his family members?
(a) A neighbor.
(b) His girlfriend.
(c) The maid.
(d) The gardener.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harriet do for a living?

2. In "Chapter 2," how does the unnamed man with the truck pay to go to London?

3. Why won't Charles help Christopher find his grandmother's body?

4. Why is Paul groggy when he discovers the bodies of his family members?

5. What does the Brother at the church give Christopher as a child?

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