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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While a crowd of villagers wait in line to buy food from a vendor, whom do they let cut the line?
(a) No one cuts the line.
(b) The landlord.
(c) The overseer.
(d) A white man.

2. Why do the landlords travel from road to road throughout the village in Chapter 2?
(a) To collect the rent money.
(b) To be sure that everyone has enough water.
(c) To chat with the villagers.
(d) To assess the damage from the flood.

3. What does the old man say Mr. Slime is telling the people they should own?
(a) Pigeons.
(b) More livestock.
(c) Their own land.
(d) Gold.

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

5. What does Ma have Pa do to get him to stop thinking about dying?
(a) Call a neighbor to talk.
(b) Say a prayer together.
(c) Look at old photos of themselves.
(d) Talk about it with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What new venture does Mr. Slime begin?

2. Which season in the village could change everything?

3. Through what means does the author convey to the reader that Mr. Slime is no longer a schoolteacher?

4. 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?

5. When Miss Foster goes to see the landlord, Mr. Creighton, what does he do?

(see the answer key)

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