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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Writing poetry for a publisher.
(b) Teaching in America.
(c) Teaching in Trinidad.
(d) Joining the village police.

2. What is one of the ways in which the old man and the old woman make a living?
(a) They sell goat's milk.
(b) They make clothing.
(c) They run a food cart.
(d) They sell cow's milk.

3. Who begins to approach G. after Boy Blue and Trumper leave the little boy's open-air conversion?
(a) The preacher.
(b) The policeman.
(c) Mr. Slime.
(d) Bob's father.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What words does G.'s mother use to feel better about not being able to provide him with a nicer place to live?

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

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

4. Which of the three boys in Chapter 7 end up being converted by the preacher?

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

(see the answer key)

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