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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which season in the village could change everything?
(a) Winter season.
(b) The hot summer.
(c) Flood season.
(d) Tourist season.

2. What does Ma have Pa do to get him to stop thinking about dying?
(a) Call a neighbor to talk.
(b) Talk about it with her.
(c) Say a prayer together.
(d) Look at old photos of themselves.

3. In what voice is Chapter 8 presented?
(a) Unreliable first person.
(b) First person.
(c) Omniscient
(d) Second person.

4. The boys standing under the pipe in Chapter 3 devise a plan to retaliate against the head teacher. What is the plan?
(a) To stone him.
(b) To knock on his door and run.
(c) To put tacks on his chair.
(d) To write him a nasty letter.

5. When the shoemaker talks about Marcus Garvey in Chapter 5, why don't some people like it when he tells them they are brothers because he is from Africa?
(a) They hate Africa.
(b) They do not know how to speak that language.
(c) They do not want to know they are black.
(d) Africa is too far away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the main protagonist in Chapter 10?

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

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

4. When the landlord speaks personally to Ma while she is on her way to the office in Chapter 8, what does he tell her he will do if things get any worse in the village?

5. In Chapter 7, what does Trumper say Mr. Slime wants to put an end to?

(see the answer key)

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