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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What field of work do Bob and Boy Blue both enter?
(a) Carpentry.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Police.
(d) Shoemaking.

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

3. What question does Pa really want answered by the head teacher in Chapter 13?
(a) Why Mr. Creighton sold the land to Mr. Slime.
(b) How much his house is worth.
(c) Why he is being sent to the Alms House.
(d) When he has to leave.

4. Where are the poor whites on the island originally from?
(a) New Zealand.
(b) England.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Scotland.

5. What happens to the landlord's daughter?
(a) She moves to England.
(b) She emigrates to America.
(c) She marries a sailor.
(d) She stays in Barbados.

6. What does Pa think the landlord should do about the land?
(a) Sell it.
(b) Burn it.
(c) Rebuild on it.
(d) Give it to them.

7. Where does G.'s mother get her information about Trinidad?
(a) From Pa.
(b) From Dave.
(c) From the newspapers.
(d) Television.

8. G. has become attached to the first assistant who was mentoring him. G. gets the feeling that he will see him for the last time just before he gets a confirmation of a job offer. What job offer does G. receive?
(a) Joining the village police.
(b) Writing poetry for a publisher.
(c) Teaching in America.
(d) Teaching in Trinidad.

9. What does the man visiting Mr. Foster in Chapter 13 offer to buy from him?
(a) His clothing.
(b) His car.
(c) His garage.
(d) His house.

10. Where is G. preparing to go in Chapter 14?
(a) England.
(b) Trinidad.
(c) America.
(d) Europe.

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) Shrimp.
(c) Cuckoo.
(d) Callalloo.

12. 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) Miss Foster.
(b) The landlord's wife.
(c) The old drunken woman.
(d) The English lady.

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

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

15. Where is Ma having pain?
(a) Her head.
(b) Her stomach.
(c) Her ribs.
(d) Her legs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the families shipped to the islands from Africa?

2. What does G. find on the beach that he decides to hide?

3. In Chapter 13, what does the head teacher say he would offer to do for Pa?

4. Pa states that if you hear someone wanting to get back to Africa, what should you think?

5. Why does G. feel it best to be separated for a day from what he found on the beach?

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