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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What device does the author use to let the reader know that the head teacher likes to drink ?
(a) Dialogue.
(b) Point of view.
(c) Narration.
(d) Descriptive words.

2. When Miss Foster goes to see the landlord, Mr. Creighton, what does he do?
(a) He tells her to go home.
(b) He gives her money and a cup of tea.
(c) He makes her empty promises.
(d) He yells at her.

3. What point of view does the author use in Chapter 3?
(a) Unreliable first person.
(b) Second person.
(c) Third person, omniscient.
(d) First person.

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

5. In what way is G. embarrassed as he is being bathed outside in his yard?
(a) The neighbor boys are peeking at him over the fence.
(b) He is too fat.
(c) He is too skinny.
(d) His mother is babying him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the old man say Mr. Slime is telling the people they should own?

2. Why does Miss Foster go to see the landlord?

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

4. Why does the white gentleman get angry when Gordon tries to sell him a fowlcock in Chapter 2?

5. What is Barbados known as in comparison with the Mother Country?

(see the answer key)

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