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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the water inspector check the drinking water?
(a) He tests it in a lab.
(b) He never checks it.
(c) He tastes it.
(d) He scrapes the side of the container with a long spoon.

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

3. When an old woman tells a schoolboy she had once been a slave, what does his teacher tell him?
(a) In England, a short time ago.
(b) In Barbados and a very long time ago.
(c) In America, a hundred years ago.
(d) Not in Barbados and a very long time ago.

4. Where is the drinking water for the house kept?
(a) In a barrel.
(b) It had to be purchased.
(c) In the faucet.
(d) In the spring.

5. Who runs a busy food cart that the villagers buy food from every morning?
(a) Mr. Creighton.
(b) Savory.
(c) Pa.
(d) Mr. Foster.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to Boy Blue as he is catching crabs on the wild side of the sea?

3. An old woman walks circles in the night outside in Chapter 2. Why?

4. In what way do Bambini and Bots become enemies?

5. Who does the headmaster put to the back of his mind as being too big and important to deal with yet, after he has seen the contents of the envelope?

(see the answer key)

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