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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Trumper shout out when the boys are trying be quiet on the trash heap?
(a) He sees a couple kissing.
(b) He realizes that they are in an ants' nest.
(c) They are sitting on a wasps' nest.
(d) The overseer is coming.

2. How is Trumper able to get his two friends inside the gate of the landlord's home?
(a) The overseer leaves a key for Cutsie and he got it.
(b) They make a tunnel under the gate.
(c) He bribes the overseer for a key.
(d) He blackmails Mr. Slime for a key.

3. After G. tells the reader his feelings about hiding the pebble and leaving the village school, where does Trumper tell G. he is going?
(a) To Scotland.
(b) To Africa.
(c) To England.
(d) To America.

4. What is the little boy afraid of as the preacher tries to convert him in Chapter 7?
(a) The crowd.
(b) The dark of night.
(c) The preacher's voice.
(d) The candle.

5. What does the shoemaker say the author J.B. Priestly prophesied?
(a) World War I.
(b) Tourism in Barbados.
(c) The end of the world.
(d) World War II.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ma tell Pa that he sees salvation in?

2. Through what means does the author convey to the reader that Mr. Slime is no longer a schoolteacher?

3. What does G. find on the beach that he decides to hide?

4. Whom does Boy Blue refer to as being a kind of "black Jesus"?

5. Who does the old woman say is Mr. Slime's enemy?

(see the answer key)

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