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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 realizes that they are in an ants' nest.
(b) He sees a couple kissing.
(c) The overseer is coming.
(d) They are sitting on a wasps' nest.

2. What did the old man once do that had money flowing through his hands "like the flood"?
(a) Panned for gold in South America.
(b) LIved in England and worked.
(c) Sold goats to the landlords.
(d) Helped build the Panama Canal.

3. Why does the old man keep looking up at the landlord's house before he retires to bed?
(a) He is praying for the landlord.
(b) He is putting a bad spell on the landlord.
(c) He is suspicious of what goes on there.
(d) He wonders what it feels like to be big and great.

4. 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 America.
(b) To Africa.
(c) To Scotland.
(d) To England.

5. What does G. find on the beach that he decides to hide?
(a) A beautiful shell.
(b) A pebble.
(c) A dead crab.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the young man, Barrow, decide to do for the war effort?

2. Why does G. feel it best to be separated for a day from what he found on the beach?

3. Why do Trumper, Boy Blue and G. sneak onto the landlord's grounds at night in Chapter 7?

4. What field of work do Bob and Boy Blue both enter?

5. What happens to a large merchant ship in the Barbados harbor?

(see the answer key)

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