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

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) They do not know what she means.
(d) Little children.

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

4. Who do Bob's and G.'s mother decide are not worth bothering about?
(a) The fowlcock.
(b) Gordon.
(c) The children.
(d) Mr. Foster.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the old man in Chapter 4 compare Mr. Slime?

2. Who are Pa and Ma?

3. Why does the old man keep looking up at the landlord's house before he retires to bed?

4. Which teacher has his name on the envelope that the headmaster receives?

5. What is in the envelope that the head teacher receives from a boy?

(see the answer key)

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