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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What delicacy is being sold by a road vendor in Chapter 2?
(a) Cheesecake.
(b) Black pudding and souse.
(c) Oysters and crabs.
(d) Lobster boiled in chicken broth.

3. 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 America, a hundred years ago.
(c) In Barbados and a very long time ago.
(d) In England, a short time ago.

4. Whom does Jon end up marrying?
(a) Nobody.
(b) Susie.
(c) Bots.
(d) Jen.

5. From whom does Boy Blue tell the others to keep the secret of the fisherman?
(a) G.'s mother.
(b) Bob's mother.
(c) Bob.
(d) Mr. Slime.

6. What author makes the shoemaker begin to think about colonial governors?
(a) J.B. Priestly.
(b) Dickens.
(c) Oscar Wilde.
(d) George Lamming.

7. Nine-year-old G. sees things in his bed when his eyes open. What does he see?
(a) His grandparents.
(b) Phantoms.
(c) Shadows.
(d) Presents.

8. Miss Foster says the phrase "..pick up the weself" when telling Bob's mother and G.'s mother about the flood. What does "weself" mean?
(a) Photos of them when they were little.
(b) Little children.
(c) Ourselves.
(d) They do not know what she means.

9. How do the neighbors refer to G's day of celebration in order to console him?
(a) "Tomorrow is another day."
(b) "The day brought showers of blessings."
(c) "At last the sun came out."
(d) "Your home is in one piece."

10. What is the only thing that Ma believes matters?
(a) Love.
(b) Salvation in Christ.
(c) Education.
(d) Working hard.

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

12. Why does the old man keep looking up at the landlord's house before he retires to bed?
(a) He is putting a bad spell on the landlord.
(b) He wonders what it feels like to be big and great.
(c) He is suspicious of what goes on there.
(d) He is praying for the landlord.

13. When the shoemaker, Mr. Foster and the others talk about the possibility of a strike or losing their jobs, whom does the shoemaker say they should leave the thinking to?
(a) Mr. Creighton.
(b) Mr. Slime.
(c) The headmaster.
(d) Ma and Pa.

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

15. Who are the boys watching with fascination on the wild side of the sea in Chapter 6?
(a) A fisherman.
(b) A woman swimming.
(c) Bob.
(d) Mr. Slime.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what way is G. embarrassed as he is being bathed outside in his yard?

3. Where do Trumper, Boy Blue and G. run to as they escape being chased in Chapter 7?

4. Which two women get into a physical brawl in Chapter 5?

5. To whom does the old man in Chapter 4 compare Mr. Slime?

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