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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The village overseers are given special favors. What is one favor given?
(a) Owning the land their house is on after 20 years.
(b) Freedom from traffic tickets.
(c) Free food after working 10 years.
(d) The law does not apply to them.

2. Where do Trumper, Boy Blue and G. run to as they escape being chased in Chapter 7?
(a) The open-air meeting.
(b) The forest.
(c) The bathhouse.
(d) G.'s home.

3. When the landlord speaks personally to Ma while she is on her way to the office in Chapter 8, what does he tell her he will do if things get any worse in the village?
(a) He will rebuild.
(b) He will burn it down.
(c) He will sell the land.
(d) He will give the land to the villagers.

4. What is intimated will happen to the two women who go off with the constable after their fight?
(a) They try to escape.
(b) They will not get arrested.
(c) They fight again.
(d) They will get arrrested.

5. When the shoemaker talks about Marcus Garvey in Chapter 5, why don't some people like it when he tells them they are brothers because he is from Africa?
(a) They hate Africa.
(b) They do not want to know they are black.
(c) Africa is too far away.
(d) They do not know how to speak that language.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do the villagers believe that Mr. Slime resigned his teaching position?

3. In Chapter 7, what does Trumper say Mr. Slime wants to put an end to?

4. Why does the old woman hesitate to tell the old man about what the landlord said?

5. What does Pa think the landlord should do about the land?

(see the answer key)

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