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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who encourages Bambi to get married?
(a) Bots.
(b) The white woman from England.
(c) Bambini.
(d) Miss Foster.

2. What is the headmaster's overwhelming feeling when he looks inside the envelope and thinks about its contents?
(a) Love because of the photo he sees.
(b) Confusion as to what he should do.
(c) Fear over the contents.
(d) Guilt at what he sees.

3. What company will be hurt if there is a strike?
(a) Jones and Creighton Shipping.
(b) The Friendly Society.
(c) England Shipping.
(d) Penny Bank.

4. Who begins to approach G. after Boy Blue and Trumper leave the little boy's open-air conversion?
(a) Mr. Slime.
(b) The policeman.
(c) The preacher.
(d) Bob's father.

5. Who do Bob's and G.'s mother decide are not worth bothering about?
(a) Gordon.
(b) Mr. Foster.
(c) The fowlcock.
(d) The children.

6. To whom does the old man in Chapter 4 compare Mr. Slime?
(a) Mr. Creighton.
(b) The king.
(c) Moses.
(d) God.

7. An old woman walks circles in the night outside in Chapter 2. Why?
(a) She is practicing a dance.
(b) She has a high fever.
(c) She is drunk.
(d) She is very lost.

8. Whom does Boy Blue refer to as being a kind of "black Jesus"?
(a) The shoemaker.
(b) Mr. Foster.
(c) Mr. Slime.
(d) Mr. Creighton.

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

10. When Mr. Slime arrives with news of the strike in Chapter 5, what is the reaction of the men?
(a) They are angry.
(b) They are a little disappointed.
(c) They don't care.
(d) They are thrilled.

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

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

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

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

15. Through what means does the author convey to the reader that Mr. Slime is no longer a schoolteacher?
(a) Dialogue between an older couple.
(b) Dialogue between Mr. Slime and the headmaster.
(c) Direct narration.
(d) Mr. Slime speaking in the first person.

Short Answer Questions

1. When G. and Bob are walking toward the sea in Chapter Six, what does Bob want to do differently?

2. Nine-year-old G. sees things in his bed when his eyes open. What does he see?

3. Why does G.'s mother give him a lashing when he stops at the corner to say hello to Bob?

4. G.'s mother hits him with a broken branch after the fence comes down. Why?

5. Who does the old woman say is Mr. Slime's enemy?

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