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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Boy Blue as he is catching crabs on the wild side of the sea?
(a) He drowns.
(b) A shark bites him.
(c) He is pulled out by the waves.
(d) He is stung by jellyfish.

2. Why does Trumper shout out when the boys are trying be quiet on the trash heap?
(a) They are sitting on a wasps' nest.
(b) The overseer is coming.
(c) He realizes that they are in an ants' nest.
(d) He sees a couple kissing.

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

4. What makes the drinking water give G. a belly ache?
(a) Mosquitos are in it.
(b) rain water got into it.
(c) Bacteria.
(d) Someone else drank from it.

5. In Chapter 7, what does Trumper say Mr. Slime wants to put an end to?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Riots.
(c) Landlord's rents.
(d) Being "born again."

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

7. Whom do the boys end up running away from as they escape the landlord's gate?
(a) The overseer.
(b) The landlord.
(c) A large dog.
(d) A couple.

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

9. Where is the drinking water for the house kept?
(a) It had to be purchased.
(b) In the faucet.
(c) In a barrel.
(d) In the spring.

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

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

12. 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.

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

14. When G. and Bob are walking toward the sea in Chapter Six, what does Bob want to do differently?
(a) Not talk while walking.
(b) Take two different routes to see who gets there first.
(c) Have a running race.
(d) Bike to the sea.

15. What is the little boy afraid of as the preacher tries to convert him in Chapter 7?
(a) The candle.
(b) The crowd.
(c) The dark of night.
(d) The preacher's voice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does Bob's mother express when Bob smiles at G. being bathed?

2. Who is the "Governor in Little England" the equivalent of in "Big England"?

3. Who encourages Bambi to get married?

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

5. What does the head teacher do when a student laughs during his presentation about pennies given on Empire Day?

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