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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. What is intimated will happen to the two women who go off with the constable after their fight?
(a) They will get arrrested.
(b) They will not get arrested.
(c) They try to escape.
(d) They fight again.

2. Which season in the village could change everything?
(a) The hot summer.
(b) Winter season.
(c) Tourist season.
(d) Flood season.

3. Why does G.'s next door neighbor box her son's, Bob's, ears?
(a) He cursed out loud.
(b) He broke G.'s mother's pumpkin vine.
(c) He was late to supper.
(d) He got into a fight with G.

4. Who is the "Governor in Little England" the equivalent of in "Big England"?
(a) Parliament.
(b) The constable.
(c) The king.
(d) The president.

5. Which two women get into a physical brawl in Chapter 5?
(a) Sheila Grimes and Baby Parker.
(b) Ma and the old woman.
(c) Miss Foster and Bob's mother.
(d) Miss Foster and Sheila Grimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what does Trumper say Mr. Slime wants to put an end to?

2. In what country does G.'s grandmother live?

3. Where is the drinking water for the house kept?

4. In what way do Bambini and Bots become enemies?

5. Who runs a busy food cart that the villagers buy food from every morning?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does G. feel guilty upon the death of his pigeon?

2. Why is it that Ma doesn't believe that Pa should be comparing Mr. Slime to Moses?

3. What are G.'s feelings about his identity in Barbados?

4. When Bob tells G. that he wants to take different routes to the sea, he tells him not to run so that they can decide which route is really the quickest. When G. hesitates and then runs after Bob, what does their ultimate interaction represent?

5. What is the relationship like between the villagers and the overseer?

6. When Trumper, Boy Blue and G. observe the fisherman in Chapter 6, what is he doing? Describe his attitude.

7. Why do Trumper, Boy Blue and G. decide to come forward and receive salvation in the open-air meeting?

8. What is the pattern of the customers on the "corner"?

9. When Mr. Foster tells the villagers that the fighting in the city has something to do with the landlord, how do they react?

10. Whom does Ma think Pa sounds like when he is talking in his sleep?

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