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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who runs a busy food cart that the villagers buy food from every morning?
(a) Savory.
(b) Mr. Foster.
(c) Mr. Creighton.
(d) Pa.

2. What device does the author use to let the reader know that the head teacher likes to drink ?
(a) Narration.
(b) Dialogue.
(c) Descriptive words.
(d) Point of view.

3. Who are the boys watching with fascination on the wild side of the sea in Chapter 6?
(a) A fisherman.
(b) Mr. Slime.
(c) A woman swimming.
(d) Bob.

4. What had the head teacher's wife once done to him when he returned home drunk?
(a) She whipped him.
(b) She threw his clothes out the window.
(c) She called the police.
(d) She threw him out.

5. When G. and Bob are walking toward the sea in Chapter Six, what does Bob want to do differently?
(a) Take two different routes to see who gets there first.
(b) Bike to the sea.
(c) Have a running race.
(d) Not talk while walking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes the drinking water give G. a belly ache?

2. What is the only thing that Ma believes matters?

3. Whom does Boy Blue refer to as being a kind of "black Jesus"?

4. Who are Pa and Ma?

5. Who is the "Governor in Little England" the equivalent of in "Big England"?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the author compares the inspector and the head teacher in Chapter 3, how does he do so?

2. What information does the old drunken woman give the villagers in Chapter 9? How is it taken?

3. What is Mr. Slime's plan for the people of Barbados as described by Pa?

4. How does the schoolmaster looking a schoolboy in the eye make the boy feel as if he had done something wrong?

5. What is the fate of the overseer, according to Pa?

6. In what way have the villagers lost control of their lives in Chapter 9 when the men surround their homes?

7. Who are the "vagabonds" the old woman speaks of to Pa?

8. In what way does Pa compare Mr. Slime to Moses?

9. What does the reader know about Pa and Ma?

10. What technique does Bob use to get G. out of a beating in Chapter 2? How can this be related to the way black people in Barbados are treated?

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