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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) You live where your bed is.
(b) Any house is a home.
(c) The mind is the man.
(d) The room is not important.

2. In Chapter 7, what does Trumper say Mr. Slime wants to put an end to?
(a) Being "born again."
(b) Riots.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Landlord's rents.

3. Why does G. feel it best to be separated for a day from what he found on the beach?
(a) So it doesn't hurt him.
(b) It is too bright.
(c) It would mean more to him.
(d) It confuses him.

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

5. What does the old man say Mr. Slime is telling the people they should own?
(a) More livestock.
(b) Their own land.
(c) Gold.
(d) Pigeons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ma have Pa do to get him to stop thinking about dying?

2. What country does Boy Blue say Mr. Slime calls the bread basket of the world?

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

4. What new venture does Mr. Slime begin?

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

(see the answer key)

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