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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is G. afraid of concerning other people?
(a) That they will rob you.
(b) Their skin color.
(c) That they will claim to know you.
(d) Nothing at all.

2. What job does the overseer take on?
(a) Head school master.
(b) Supervisor of roads.
(c) Landlord.
(d) Tax collector.

3. In Chapter 12, as G. is talking to Pa, the reader learns that the village train has stopped running. Why?
(a) The tracks are sold for scrap iron for the war.
(b) The tracks are destroyed by the Germans.
(c) The landlord buys it and destroys it.
(d) No one takes the train anymore.

4. How much time has gone by in the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) Days.
(b) A few hours.
(c) A month.
(d) Years.

5. How many sections is Chapter 13 divided into?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

6. How long is the shoemaker told he has before he must vacate the land his shop is on?
(a) A year.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) A month.
(d) One day.

7. Pa states that if you hear someone wanting to get back to Africa, what should you think?
(a) You do not belong there yet.
(b) He is a wise person.
(c) Hurry on a boat.
(d) All of your people should go.

8. Where does the head teacher say he and Mr. Creighton plan to send Pa?
(a) Trinidad.
(b) To live with the Fosters.
(c) America.
(d) The Alms House.

9. How does Bob escape the city without further harm?
(a) He hides in a trash heap.
(b) He crawls home.
(c) He goes to police headquarters.
(d) He finds Trumper.

10. In what voice is Chapter 8 presented?
(a) Unreliable first person.
(b) First person.
(c) Omniscient
(d) Second person.

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

12. How long has the landlord been living in the village?
(a) More than 30 years.
(b) 20 years, exactly.
(c) More than 40 years.
(d) Less than a year.

13. Who is in pursuit of Bob and Trumper when they reach the city?
(a) The overseer.
(b) The police.
(c) The rioters.
(d) The landlord.

14. What is G. writing at the beginning of Chapter 14?
(a) A history book.
(b) A journal.
(c) A novel.
(d) A school notebook.

15. What is happening to the roads in Chapter 12?
(a) They are being narrowed.
(b) They are flooding.
(c) They are being widened.
(d) They are being repaired.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Pa that G. is going away?

2. What does the man visiting Mr. Foster in Chapter 13 offer to buy from him?

3. The old woman thinks she knows how the landlord feels towards the villagers. What feeling is predominant?

4. Why does the shoemaker begin to cry in front of his friends?

5. When Pa speaks about tribes, what do some tribes have that others do not?

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