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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the water inspector check the drinking water?
(a) He tastes it.
(b) He tests it in a lab.
(c) He never checks it.
(d) He scrapes the side of the container with a long spoon.

2. G.'s mother hits him with a broken branch after the fence comes down. Why?
(a) He is standing there, naked, for all to see.
(b) He made the fence come down.
(c) He laughs at the fence coming down.
(d) He won't help her.

3. How does Bob feel about his mother beating him all of the time?
(a) He is hardened to it.
(b) He feels very sad all of the time.
(c) He is afraid.
(d) He likes the beatings.

4. Why does the mother groan in Chapter 1?
(a) She is in a lot of pain.
(b) She feels that the kitchen is in a mess.
(c) She has lost her money.
(d) She is hungry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does G.'s mother sing?

2. Which season in the village could change everything?

3. What is the sanitary water inspector checking for?

4. What emotion does Bob's mother express when Bob smiles at G. being bathed?

5. When G.'s mother sings in the house, in what way do the neighbors respond?

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