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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The landlord.
(c) A white man.
(d) No one cuts the line.

2. Which of the three boys in Chapter 7 end up being converted by the preacher?
(a) G.
(b) All of them.
(c) Trumper.
(d) Boy Blue.

3. Whose side is the old woman on when the landlord takes her aside to speak with her about the village?
(a) England's.
(b) She is neutral.
(c) Mr. Slime's.
(d) The landlord's.

4. Why does the old woman go down to the landlord's house?
(a) To spy on him.
(b) To pay the rent.
(c) To have tea.
(d) To ask for a loan.

5. Which woman had children by a baker, a butcher and an unknown man?
(a) G. mother.
(b) Miss Foster.
(c) Ma.
(d) Bob's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pa do that he never told anyone else about?

2. How does the old woman feel at first about the landlord having chosen to speak to her in Chapter 8?

3. Why does the white gentleman get angry when Gordon tries to sell him a fowlcock in Chapter 2?

4. Miss Foster says the phrase "..pick up the weself" when telling Bob's mother and G.'s mother about the flood. What does "weself" mean?

5. Why do the landlords travel from road to road throughout the village in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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