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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whom is G. eavesdropping on at the Miami Club?
(a) His mother and the head teacher.
(b) Mr. Slime and the head teacher.
(c) Mr. Slime and Mr. Creighton.
(d) His mother and Mr. Slime.

3. What emotion does Bob's mother express when Bob smiles at G. being bathed?
(a) Fury.
(b) Humor.
(c) Love.
(d) Hate.

4. In Chapter 12, as G. is talking to Pa, the reader learns that the village train has stopped running. Why?
(a) The tracks are sold for scrap iron for the war.
(b) The landlord buys it and destroys it.
(c) The tracks are destroyed by the Germans.
(d) No one takes the train anymore.

5. In what way is G. embarrassed as he is being bathed outside in his yard?
(a) His mother is babying him.
(b) The neighbor boys are peeking at him over the fence.
(c) He is too skinny.
(d) He is too fat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the value of people in Africa according to Pa?

2. Who is the only person G. has an attachment to and is grateful for in high school?

3. When Mr. Slime arrives with news of the strike in Chapter 5, what is the reaction of the men?

4. To where does G.'s maternal uncle emigrate?

5. When G. and his mother are in their kitchen, his mother gets angry with him..What does G.'s mother pick up to strike him with?

(see the answer key)

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