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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Miss Foster go to see the landlord?
(a) To pay the rent.
(b) To ask about her husband and her home.
(c) To get help.
(d) To get her rent back.

3. What does Ma have Pa do to get him to stop thinking about dying?
(a) Talk about it with her.
(b) Look at old photos of themselves.
(c) Call a neighbor to talk.
(d) Say a prayer together.

4. What country does Boy Blue say Mr. Slime calls the bread basket of the world?
(a) Trinidad.
(b) America.
(c) England.
(d) Panama.

5. Whom do Mr. Foster and the overseer's brother ask for an opinion about Mr. Slime?
(a) Miss Foster.
(b) Ma.
(c) A boy.
(d) Bob's mother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does the old woman say is Mr. Slime's enemy?

3. How does Bob feel about his mother beating him all of the time?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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