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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which season in the village could change everything?
(a) Winter season.
(b) Tourist season.
(c) Flood season.
(d) The hot summer.

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

3. To where does G.'s maternal uncle emigrate?
(a) Trinidad.
(b) Panama.
(c) America.
(d) England.

4. Nine-year-old G. sees things in his bed when his eyes open. What does he see?
(a) His grandparents.
(b) Phantoms.
(c) Presents.
(d) Shadows.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The village overseers are given special favors. What is one favor given?

2. How does the water inspector check the drinking water?

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

4. What happens to the Foster family?

5. While a crowd of villagers wait in line to buy food from a vendor, whom do they let cut the line?

(see the answer key)

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