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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What author makes the shoemaker begin to think about colonial governors?
(a) Oscar Wilde.
(b) Dickens.
(c) J.B. Priestly.
(d) George Lamming.

2. What do some of the boys argue about when they receive their pennies?
(a) How the pennies could be duplicated.
(b) Their worthlessness.
(c) Where to spend them.
(d) How much each received.

3. What is the only thing that Ma believes matters?
(a) Education.
(b) Salvation in Christ.
(c) Love.
(d) Working hard.

4. When the shoemaker, Mr. Foster and the others talk about the possibility of a strike or losing their jobs, whom does the shoemaker say they should leave the thinking to?
(a) Ma and Pa.
(b) Mr. Slime.
(c) The headmaster.
(d) Mr. Creighton.

5. What does Pa do that he never told anyone else about?
(a) He writes a letter to the king.
(b) He touches a dead man.
(c) He has an affair.
(d) He nearly drowns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does G.'s mother say about everything that displeases her?

2. When G.'s mother sings in the house, in what way do the neighbors respond?

3. Who runs a busy food cart that the villagers buy food from every morning?

4. What point of view does the author use in Chapter 3?

5. What do the village boys do for fun and adventure on the railroad tracks?

(see the answer key)

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