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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who keeps the overseer from disturbing the preacher's conversion of sinners?
(a) Mr. Creighton.
(b) The crowd and the rebuker in the back.
(c) Mr. Slime's speech.
(d) The three boys who ran away.

2. How is the high school different from the village school?
(a) The high school is less restricted.
(b) There are too many supervising ministers at the hIgh school.
(c) The high school serves the needs of the poor.
(d) The village school is more easygoing.

3. Who does the old woman say is Mr. Slime's enemy?
(a) Mr. Creighton.
(b) The headmaster.
(c) Bob's father.
(d) Mr. Foster.

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

5. 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) The overseer is coming.
(c) He sees a couple kissing.
(d) They are sitting on a wasps' nest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the little boy afraid of as the preacher tries to convert him in Chapter 7?

2. What is the only thing that Ma believes matters?

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

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

5. From whom does G. receive letters in Chapter 11?

(see the answer key)

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