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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the old man keep looking up at the landlord's house before he retires to bed?
(a) He is suspicious of what goes on there.
(b) He is praying for the landlord.
(c) He is putting a bad spell on the landlord.
(d) He wonders what it feels like to be big and great.

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

3. What is one of the ways in which the old man and the old woman make a living?
(a) They sell cow's milk.
(b) They run a food cart.
(c) They make clothing.
(d) They sell goat's milk.

4. Who are Pa and Ma?
(a) The oldest couple in the village.
(b) England's queen and king's nicknames.
(c) The village's mayor and his wife.
(d) G.'s parents.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The boys standing under the pipe in Chapter 3 devise a plan to retaliate against the head teacher. What is the plan?

2. In what way is G. embarrassed as he is being bathed outside in his yard?

3. What is the headmaster's overwhelming feeling when he looks inside the envelope and thinks about its contents?

4. What did the old man once do that had money flowing through his hands "like the flood"?

5. What makes the drinking water give G. a belly ache?

(see the answer key)

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