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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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) Savory.
(b) The overseer.
(c) The shoemaker.
(d) Mr. Slime.

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

5. Which is one of the islands named by Pa to which tribes were shipped by boat?
(a) Aruba.
(b) Grenada.
(c) St. Martin.
(d) Cuba.

6. What do the men at the park gate give to Bob and Trumper?
(a) Sticks to use as a weapon.
(b) Maps.
(c) Pins to put on the train tracks.
(d) Money.

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

8. On whose side does Mr. Slime say he will be on in any calamity?
(a) The landlord's side.
(b) His own side.
(c) The village's side.
(d) Nobody's side.

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

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

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

12. What happens to a lot of trees in the village?
(a) They are felled.
(b) There is a forest fire.
(c) Lightning hits them.
(d) People use them for firewood.

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

14. Why does the shoemaker begin to cry in front of his friends?
(a) He wishes he could move to America.
(b) He misses his wife.
(c) He is thinking he might have to move.
(d) He is thinking about the riots.

15. In Chapter 8, by the trash heap, what does the landlord speak to the old woman about?
(a) How things have changed in the village.
(b) How much money she makes.
(c) Whether she wants tea.
(d) How every family in the village is doing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose side is the old woman on when the landlord takes her aside to speak with her about the village?

2. 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?

3. How is the high school different from the village school?

4. What color is the goat with Pa in Chapter 12?

5. 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?

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