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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the main protagonist in Chapter 10?
(a) Ma.
(b) The landlord.
(c) Mr. Slime.
(d) Pa.

2. What does "Pa" want Mr. Foster and Bob's father to do in Chapter 9?
(a) Hide in the house.
(b) Ask Mr. Slime what is happening in the city.
(c) Go into the city and report back.
(d) Run away from the village.

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

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

5. 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.

6. What color is the goat with Pa in Chapter 12?
(a) Spotted.
(b) Brown.
(c) White.
(d) Black.

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

8. Who tells Pa that G. is going away?
(a) Mrs. Creighton.
(b) Bob's mother.
(c) G.'s mother.
(d) Miss Foster.

9. What is it that Bob's father and Mr. Foster cannot bear to listen to in Mr. Foster's house as the men try to talk about the meaning of the fighting?
(a) Bob's yelling.
(b) Music.
(c) Miss Foster's crying.
(d) The rioters coming.

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

11. The old woman thinks she knows how the landlord feels towards the villagers. What feeling is predominant?
(a) Responsibility.
(b) Pity.
(c) Deep love.
(d) Hatred.

12. What does G. find on the beach that he decides to hide?
(a) A beautiful shell.
(b) A pebble.
(c) A dead crab.
(d) Money.

13. 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.

14. What does Trumper discover in America that is of great importance to him?
(a) That there is democracy.
(b) Paul Robeson.
(c) That he is of the Negro race.
(d) That he misses Barbados.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the shoemaker say the author J.B. Priestly prophesied?

2. What is it that Pa says people have a way of not remembering?

3. What is going on in the city in Chapter 9 that the village is in fear of?

4. How does Bob escape the city without further harm?

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

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