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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Kitty's interview in "Chapter 3" go poorly?
(a) The interviewer finds out she's from Jamaica.
(b) Kitty lies and is caught.
(c) Kitty is too nervous.
(d) The interview dislikes her accent.

2. Why does Jennie believe Clare was left in the United States?
(a) Because of her skin color.
(b) Jennie doesn't know why.
(c) Because she was smart.
(d) Because she was beautiful.

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

4. What event happens before Kitty and Boy leave for the United States?
(a) A political change.
(b) A robbery.
(c) A murder.
(d) An illness.

5. Where are the words "no telephone to heaven" painted?
(a) On a billboard.
(b) On a truck.
(c) On a government building.
(d) On a shack.

6. How does Clare say she felt after her mother left for Jamaica?
(a) Pleased.
(b) Confused.
(c) She doesn't remember her mother leaving.
(d) Releaved.

7. How is Miss Mattie's granddaughter's skin described?
(a) Mottled.
(b) Dark.
(c) Light.
(d) Medium.

8. In "Chapter 2," how does the narrator say many people feel about worshiping God?
(a) Betrayed.
(b) Saved.
(c) Worried.
(d) Proud.

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

10. Who used to own the land the men and women in the truck reclaimed?
(a) No one knows.
(b) Rupert Goldstein.
(c) Mr. Walker.
(d) Miss Mattie.

11. Where does the quote in "Chapter 3" originate?
(a) British literature.
(b) A Bible passage.
(c) Jamaican folklore.
(d) A hymn.

12. How does the narrator describe weapon manufacturing, in "Chapter 1"?
(a) A dangerous line of work.
(b) A big business.
(c) A job for the strong.
(d) An English trade.

13. What does Clare do at the end of "Chapter 4"?
(a) She begins to build a house.
(b) She delivers goods to people.
(c) She goes to sleep.
(d) She interviews people in her old village.

14. In "Chapter 1," what word is used interchangeably with "ruinate"?
(a) Trash.
(b) Jungle.
(c) Bush.
(d) Shrubbery.

15. In "Chapter 1," where does the narrator say the soldiers sleep?
(a) Outside.
(b) In other people's houses.
(c) In a truck-bed.
(d) In tents.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Chapter 1," what origin is given for the word "ruinate"?

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

3. Who brings Kitty to the United States?

4. In "Chapter 1," what is in the house?

5. Where do Kitty and Boy first land in the United States?

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