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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the headmaster put to the back of his mind as being too big and important to deal with yet, after he has seen the contents of the envelope?
(a) The students.
(b) His boss.
(c) Mr. Slime.
(d) His wife.

2. Who runs a busy food cart that the villagers buy food from every morning?
(a) Savory.
(b) Pa.
(c) Mr. Foster.
(d) Mr. Creighton.

3. What does Pa do that he never told anyone else about?
(a) He writes a letter to the king.
(b) He nearly drowns.
(c) He touches a dead man.
(d) He has an affair.

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

5. Which teacher has his name on the envelope that the headmaster receives?
(a) Mr. Slime.
(b) Mr. Heady.
(c) Mr. Foster.
(d) Mr. Garvey.

6. What device does the author use to let the reader know that the head teacher likes to drink ?
(a) Narration.
(b) Point of view.
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Descriptive words.

7. What does G.'s mother do every Sunday when he walks past the corner on his way to Sunday school?
(a) She turns her back and forgets about him.
(b) She watches to be sure he stops there.
(c) She watches that he doesn't stop there.
(d) She tells him to take his time.

8. On his walk toward the sea, what does G. realize about the corner when he stops there to say hello to Bob?
(a) It is where gambling men hang out.
(b) All the mothers stand around there.
(c) It is the safest place to be.
(d) It is filthy there.

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

10. Where do Trumper, Boy Blue and G. run to as they escape being chased in Chapter 7?
(a) The forest.
(b) The bathhouse.
(c) The open-air meeting.
(d) G.'s home.

11. 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) A white man.
(c) The overseer.
(d) No one cuts the line.

12. Whom do Mr. Foster and the overseer's brother ask for an opinion about Mr. Slime?
(a) Bob's mother.
(b) A boy.
(c) Ma.
(d) Miss Foster.

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

14. What point of view does the author use in Chapter 3?
(a) Unreliable first person.
(b) Second person.
(c) Third person, omniscient.
(d) First person.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What country does Boy Blue say Mr. Slime calls the bread basket of the world?

2. Who are the boys watching with fascination on the wild side of the sea in Chapter 6?

3. From whom does Boy Blue tell the others to keep the secret of the fisherman?

4. What happens to the Foster family?

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?

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