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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what other island have there been civil disturbances and riots?
(a) St. Martin.
(b) The Bahamas.
(c) Aruba.
(d) Trinidad.

2. 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) They are sitting on a wasps' nest.
(d) He sees a couple kissing.

3. While a crowd of villagers wait in line to buy food from a vendor, whom do they let cut the line?
(a) The overseer.
(b) A white man.
(c) No one cuts the line.
(d) The landlord.

4. Which two women get into a physical brawl in Chapter 5?
(a) Ma and the old woman.
(b) Sheila Grimes and Baby Parker.
(c) Miss Foster and Bob's mother.
(d) Miss Foster and Sheila Grimes.

5. In Chapter 8, by the trash heap, what does the landlord speak to the old woman about?
(a) How things have changed in the village.
(b) How every family in the village is doing.
(c) Whether she wants tea.
(d) How much money she makes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Miss Foster go to see the landlord?

2. Where are the poor whites on the island originally from?

3. Why does the old woman go down to the landlord's house?

4. Through what means does the author convey to the reader that Mr. Slime is no longer a schoolteacher?

5. Where do Trumper, Boy Blue and G. run to as they escape being chased in Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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