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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ma have Pa do to get him to stop thinking about dying?
(a) Say a prayer together.
(b) Talk about it with her.
(c) Look at old photos of themselves.
(d) Call a neighbor to talk.

2. Why do Trumper, Boy Blue and G. sneak onto the landlord's grounds at night in Chapter 7?
(a) To pick flowers.
(b) To play cricket.
(c) To watch a dance.
(d) To get food.

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

4. From whom does G. receive letters in Chapter 11?
(a) Boy Blue and Trinidad school authorities.
(b) Boy Blue and Trumper.
(c) Trumper and Trinidad school authorities.
(d) His mother and Trumper.

5. What happens to a large merchant ship in the Barbados harbor?
(a) It is torpedoed.
(b) It is hijacked by German soldiers.
(c) It becomes a tourist cruise ship.
(d) It mysteriously sinks.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what does Trumper say Mr. Slime wants to put an end to?

2. How is the high school different from the village school?

3. How is Trumper able to get his two friends inside the gate of the landlord's home?

4. Who begins to approach G. after Boy Blue and Trumper leave the little boy's open-air conversion?

5. What did the old man once do that had money flowing through his hands "like the flood"?

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