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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has the landlord been living in the village?
(a) More than 40 years.
(b) More than 30 years.
(c) Less than a year.
(d) 20 years, exactly.

2. How does the old woman feel at first about the landlord having chosen to speak to her in Chapter 8?
(a) She feels pleased.
(b) She feels very sad.
(c) She feels looked down upon.
(d) She feels annoyed.

3. Where do Trumper and Bob go after they have waited three hours to find out about the fighting in the city?
(a) The run to the landlord's house.
(b) They walk to Pa's house.
(c) They scale fences to get near the train lines.
(d) They go home.

4. G. has become attached to the first assistant who was mentoring him. G. gets the feeling that he will see him for the last time just before he gets a confirmation of a job offer. What job offer does G. receive?
(a) Joining the village police.
(b) Writing poetry for a publisher.
(c) Teaching in Trinidad.
(d) Teaching in America.

5. When an old woman tells a schoolboy she had once been a slave, what does his teacher tell him?
(a) In America, a hundred years ago.
(b) In England, a short time ago.
(c) Not in Barbados and a very long time ago.
(d) In Barbados and a very long time ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the goat with Pa in Chapter 12?

2. G.'s mother hits him with a broken branch after the fence comes down. Why?

3. Which is one of the islands named by Pa to which tribes were shipped by boat?

4. The old woman thinks she knows how the landlord feels towards the villagers. What feeling is predominant?

5. What company will be hurt if there is a strike?

(see the answer key)

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