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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the sanitary water inspector checking for?
(a) Dirt.
(b) E. coli.
(c) Rain.
(d) Larvae.

5. Who is the "Governor in Little England" the equivalent of in "Big England"?
(a) Parliament.
(b) The constable.
(c) The king.
(d) The president.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only thing that Ma believes matters?

2. How does Bob feel about his mother beating him all of the time?

3. What role does Bob play in order to get past his mother, G.'s mother and Miss Foster?

4. What does Pa do that he never told anyone else about?

5. What had the head teacher's wife once done to him when he returned home drunk?

(see the answer key)

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