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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 the young man, Barrow, decide to do for the war effort?
(a) Collect food and supplies.
(b) Join the army.
(c) Donate blood.
(d) Join the Royal Air Force.

2. To whom does the old man in Chapter 4 compare Mr. Slime?
(a) Mr. Creighton.
(b) God.
(c) The king.
(d) Moses.

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

4. What words does G.'s mother use to feel better about not being able to provide him with a nicer place to live?
(a) Any house is a home.
(b) The mind is the man.
(c) You live where your bed is.
(d) The room is not important.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the old man keep looking up at the landlord's house before he retires to bed?

3. What is one of the ways in which the old man and the old woman make a living?

4. G. has become attached to the first assistant who was mentoring him. G. gets the feeling that he will see him for the last time just before he gets a confirmation of a job offer. What job offer does G. receive?

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

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