1. While a crowd of villagers wait in line to buy food from a vendor, whom do they let cut the line?
(a) A white man.
(b) No one cuts the line.
(c) The overseer.
(d) The landlord.

2. What is Barbados known as in comparison with the Mother Country?
(a) Island England.
(b) The Queen's Country.
(c) Little England.
(d) Little Barbados.

3. Who is the "Governor in Little England" the equivalent of in "Big England"?
(a) The king.
(b) Parliament.
(c) The president.
(d) The constable.

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

5. Which of the three boys in Chapter 7 end up being converted by the preacher?
(a) G.
(b) All of them.
(c) Boy Blue.
(d) Trumper.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Mr. Foster and Bob's father sit and discuss what the details might be of what is happening in the city, who is speaking in the road outside their homes, telling them her boy has been killed in the city?

2. Who do the villagers think can take care of the fighting if it comes to the village?

3. In what voice is Chapter 8 presented?

4. What is G. celebrating in Chapter 1?

5. In Chapter 12, as G. is talking to Pa, the reader learns that the village train has stopped running. Why?

(see the answer key)

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