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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to a large merchant ship in the Barbados harbor?
(a) It is hijacked by German soldiers.
(b) It is torpedoed.
(c) It mysteriously sinks.
(d) It becomes a tourist cruise ship.

2. Who comes to visit G. the night before he leaves Barbados?
(a) Boy Blue.
(b) Bob.
(c) Mr. Slime.
(d) Trumper.

3. In what way does Mr. Foster change his attitude toward the new landowner sitting in his home in Chapter 13?
(a) He begins to cry.
(b) He becomes more complacant.
(c) He turns it all into a joke.
(d) He gets extremely angry and forceful.

4. As Mr. Foster and Bob's father sit and discuss what the details might be of what is happening in the city, who is speaking in the road outside their homes, telling them her boy has been killed in the city?
(a) The English lady.
(b) The landlord's wife.
(c) The old drunken woman.
(d) Miss Foster.

5. What is the name of the colorful dish that G.'s mother cooks for him on his last evening in Barbados?
(a) Cuckoo.
(b) Callalloo.
(c) Shrimp.
(d) Stuffed crab.

6. Who almost eats the fish G.'s mother has fried?
(a) A stray dog.
(b) Some young boys.
(c) A racoon.
(d) A black cat.

7. What is it that Pa says people have a way of not remembering?
(a) Ma.
(b) The land.
(c) Old people.
(d) Chairs.

8. Which is one of the islands named by Pa to which tribes were shipped by boat?
(a) Aruba.
(b) St. Martin.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Grenada.

9. What does the shoemaker say the author J.B. Priestly prophesied?
(a) World War II.
(b) World War I.
(c) Tourism in Barbados.
(d) The end of the world.

10. Who is G. talking to in Chapter 12?
(a) Pa.
(b) Mr. Slime.
(c) Mr. Foster.
(d) His father.

11. Why does G. feel it best to be separated for a day from what he found on the beach?
(a) It is too bright.
(b) It confuses him.
(c) It would mean more to him.
(d) So it doesn't hurt him.

12. Why do the men fighting in the city make their way toward the villages?
(a) To get food.
(b) To kill the villagers.
(c) They are tired.
(d) The police force them to retreat.

13. Who joins Mr. Foster, Miss Foster and the new landowner while the landowner is explaining to the Fosters that they must vacate the land?
(a) Mr. Slime.
(b) The overseer.
(c) Savory.
(d) The shoemaker.

14. What do the men at the park gate give to Bob and Trumper?
(a) Sticks to use as a weapon.
(b) Money.
(c) Pins to put on the train tracks.
(d) Maps.

15. How is the high school different from the village school?
(a) The village school is more easygoing.
(b) There are too many supervising ministers at the hIgh school.
(c) The high school serves the needs of the poor.
(d) The high school is less restricted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ma tell Pa he should never do?

2. What happens to Ma at the end of Chapter 10?

3. How does the old woman feel at first about the landlord having chosen to speak to her in Chapter 8?

4. From whom does G. receive letters in Chapter 11?

5. What field of work do Bob and Boy Blue both enter?

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