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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

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 write him a nasty letter.
(b) To stone him.
(c) To put tacks on his chair.
(d) To knock on his door and run.

2. 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) The headmaster.
(b) Mr. Creighton.
(c) Mr. Slime.
(d) Ma and Pa.

3. What do the village boys do for fun and adventure on the railroad tracks?
(a) Run after trains to try and jump on.
(b) Lie down on the tracks.
(c) Jump over the tracks.
(d) Put pins and nails on the track to be flattened into knives.

4. In what other island have there been civil disturbances and riots?
(a) Trinidad.
(b) The Bahamas.
(c) Aruba.
(d) St. Martin.

5. G.'s mother hits him with a broken branch after the fence comes down. Why?
(a) He made the fence come down.
(b) He is standing there, naked, for all to see.
(c) He won't help her.
(d) He laughs at the fence coming down.

Short Answer Questions

1. The village overseers are given special favors. What is one favor given?

2. When an old woman tells a schoolboy she had once been a slave, what does his teacher tell him?

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

4. Nine-year-old G. sees things in his bed when his eyes open. What does he see?

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

(see the answer key)

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