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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is in the envelope that the head teacher receives from a boy?
(a) A newspaper clipping.
(b) One photograph of a man.
(c) Two photographs.
(d) A letter.

2. What does Pa do that he never told anyone else about?
(a) He writes a letter to the king.
(b) He has an affair.
(c) He nearly drowns.
(d) He touches a dead man.

3. The boys standing under the pipe in Chapter 3 devise a plan to retaliate against the head teacher. What is the plan?
(a) To knock on his door and run.
(b) To write him a nasty letter.
(c) To put tacks on his chair.
(d) To stone him.

4. What makes the drinking water give G. a belly ache?
(a) Someone else drank from it.
(b) rain water got into it.
(c) Mosquitos are in it.
(d) Bacteria.

5. Through what means does the author convey to the reader that Mr. Slime is no longer a schoolteacher?
(a) Mr. Slime speaking in the first person.
(b) Dialogue between an older couple.
(c) Direct narration.
(d) Dialogue between Mr. Slime and the headmaster.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the sanitary water inspector checking for?

4. In what country does G.'s grandmother live?

5. Which woman had children by a baker, a butcher and an unknown man?

(see the answer key)

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