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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the landlords travel from road to road throughout the village in Chapter 2?
(a) To chat with the villagers.
(b) To collect the rent money.
(c) To assess the damage from the flood.
(d) To be sure that everyone has enough water.

2. 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?
(a) Photos of them when they were little.
(b) Ourselves.
(c) Little children.
(d) They do not know what she means.

3. What is Barbados known as in comparison with the Mother Country?
(a) The Queen's Country.
(b) Island England.
(c) Little Barbados.
(d) Little England.

4. In what way is G. embarrassed as he is being bathed outside in his yard?
(a) His mother is babying him.
(b) He is too fat.
(c) He is too skinny.
(d) The neighbor boys are peeking at him over the fence.

5. What did the old man once do that had money flowing through his hands "like the flood"?
(a) Sold goats to the landlords.
(b) Panned for gold in South America.
(c) LIved in England and worked.
(d) Helped build the Panama Canal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Pa and Ma?

2. Who does the headmaster put to the back of his mind as being too big and important to deal with yet, after he has seen the contents of the envelope?

3. What delicacy is being sold by a road vendor in Chapter 2?

4. Who does Ma tell Pa that he sees salvation in?

5. To where does G.'s maternal uncle emigrate?

(see the answer key)

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