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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What field of work do Bob and Boy Blue both enter?
(a) Police.
(b) Shoemaking.
(c) Carpentry.
(d) Teaching.

2. In Chapter 8, by the trash heap, what does the landlord speak to the old woman about?
(a) How things have changed in the village.
(b) How much money she makes.
(c) How every family in the village is doing.
(d) Whether she wants tea.

3. What happens to G.'s grandfather before his mother is born?
(a) He dies.
(b) He goes to America.
(c) He joins the army.
(d) He is in a car accident.

4. 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) Africa is too far away.
(d) They do not want to know they are black.

5. After G. tells the reader his feelings about hiding the pebble and leaving the village school, where does Trumper tell G. he is going?
(a) To America.
(b) To Scotland.
(c) To Africa.
(d) To England.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Ma at the end of Chapter 10?

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

3. What happens to the families shipped to the islands from Africa?

4. What did the old man once do that had money flowing through his hands "like the flood"?

5. What company will be hurt if there is a strike?

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