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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is G. celebrating in Chapter 1?
(a) The end of the flood season.
(b) Christmas.
(c) His ninth birthday.
(d) His mother's birthday.

2. In what country does G.'s grandmother live?
(a) Panama.
(b) Barbados.
(c) America.
(d) Trinidad.

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

4. Who are Pa and Ma?
(a) G.'s parents.
(b) The village's mayor and his wife.
(c) England's queen and king's nicknames.
(d) The oldest couple in the village.

5. What is one of the ways in which the old man and the old woman make a living?
(a) They run a food cart.
(b) They make clothing.
(c) They sell goat's milk.
(d) They sell cow's milk.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do the landlords travel from road to road throughout the village in Chapter 2?

3. Why do Trumper, Boy Blue and G. sneak onto the landlord's grounds at night in Chapter 7?

4. What happens to G.'s grandfather before his mother is born?

5. Who begins to approach G. after Boy Blue and Trumper leave the little boy's open-air conversion?

(see the answer key)

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