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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Bob after he tells his parents "they comin'"?
(a) He dies.
(b) He tells them everything.
(c) He runs away.
(d) He faints.

2. 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.

3. 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) The shoemaker.
(d) Savory.

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

5. What words does G.'s mother use to feel better about not being able to provide him with a nicer place to live?
(a) The room is not important.
(b) Any house is a home.
(c) The mind is the man.
(d) You live where your bed is.

6. What is going on in the city in Chapter 9 that the village is in fear of?
(a) Murders.
(b) Drunken parties.
(c) Open-air preaching.
(d) Rioting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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 turns it all into a joke.
(c) He becomes more complacant.
(d) He gets extremely angry and forceful.

14. From whom does G. receive letters in Chapter 11?
(a) Boy Blue and Trinidad school authorities.
(b) Boy Blue and Trumper.
(c) His mother and Trumper.
(d) Trumper and Trinidad school authorities.

15. What is the value of people in Africa according to Pa?
(a) Beyond any price.
(b) 400 British pounds.
(c) Five whites to one black man.
(d) A certain amount of silver.

Short Answer Questions

1. On whose side does Mr. Slime say he will be on in any calamity?

2. In Chapter 12, G. goes to Pa's house and they begin to discuss how the village has changed. G. went to visit Pa to tell him something. What was it?

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

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

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

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