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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Ma tell Pa he should never do?
(a) Get rid of the house.
(b) Put her things in her coffin.
(c) Be unfriendly to the landlord.
(d) Sell her stuff.

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

5. What sort of dreams does Pa tell G. that he has?
(a) Prophetic ones.
(b) Nightmares.
(c) Funny ones.
(d) Strange ones.

6. Who do the villagers think can take care of the fighting if it comes to the village?
(a) Mr. Slime.
(b) The overseer.
(c) The boys.
(d) The landlord.

7. Whose side is the old woman on when the landlord takes her aside to speak with her about the village?
(a) She is neutral.
(b) England's.
(c) The landlord's.
(d) Mr. Slime's.

8. How does the old woman feel the landlord addressed her as?
(a) An equal.
(b) A slave.
(c) A servant.
(d) His superior.

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pa think that Ma would not have believed if she were alive?

2. What does Trumper discover in America that is of great importance to him?

3. What is happening to the roads in Chapter 12?

4. Who is the only person G. has an attachment to and is grateful for in high school?

5. Who is in pursuit of Bob and Trumper when they reach the city?

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