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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who keeps the overseer from disturbing the preacher's conversion of sinners?
(a) Mr. Slime's speech.
(b) The three boys who ran away.
(c) The crowd and the rebuker in the back.
(d) Mr. Creighton.

2. What magical words is Bob supposed to say just before a large wave touches his toes?
(a) "I am the master of the sea."
(b) "Sea, come no further."
(c) "Sea sesame."
(d) "I will overcome you."

3. What is intimated will happen to the two women who go off with the constable after their fight?
(a) They will get arrrested.
(b) They fight again.
(c) They will not get arrested.
(d) They try to escape.

4. What is one of the ways in which the old man and the old woman make a living?
(a) They make clothing.
(b) They sell goat's milk.
(c) They sell cow's milk.
(d) They run a food cart.

5. Who does Ma tell Pa that he sees salvation in?
(a) Mr. Slime.
(b) Mr. Foster.
(c) Mr. Creighton.
(d) The headmaster.

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

7. The village overseers are given special favors. What is one favor given?
(a) Freedom from traffic tickets.
(b) The law does not apply to them.
(c) Owning the land their house is on after 20 years.
(d) Free food after working 10 years.

8. What do some of the boys argue about when they receive their pennies?
(a) Where to spend them.
(b) Their worthlessness.
(c) How much each received.
(d) How the pennies could be duplicated.

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

10. 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 is praying for the landlord.
(c) He is suspicious of what goes on there.
(d) He wonders what it feels like to be big and great.

11. What had the head teacher's wife once done to him when he returned home drunk?
(a) She called the police.
(b) She threw him out.
(c) She whipped him.
(d) She threw his clothes out the window.

12. 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) The headmaster.
(b) Mr. Slime.
(c) Ma and Pa.
(d) Mr. Creighton.

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

14. How is Trumper able to get his two friends inside the gate of the landlord's home?
(a) The overseer leaves a key for Cutsie and he got it.
(b) He bribes the overseer for a key.
(c) He blackmails Mr. Slime for a key.
(d) They make a tunnel under the gate.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who are Pa and Ma?

3. What delicacy is being sold by a road vendor in Chapter 2?

4. While a crowd of villagers wait in line to buy food from a vendor, whom do they let cut the line?

5. When G.'s mother sings in the house, in what way do the neighbors respond?

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