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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. How is Trumper able to get his two friends inside the gate of the landlord's home?
(a) They make a tunnel under the gate.
(b) The overseer leaves a key for Cutsie and he got it.
(c) He bribes the overseer for a key.
(d) He blackmails Mr. Slime for a key.

2. What do some of the boys argue about when they receive their pennies?
(a) Where to spend them.
(b) How the pennies could be duplicated.
(c) How much each received.
(d) Their worthlessness.

3. Why does the white gentleman get angry when Gordon tries to sell him a fowlcock in Chapter 2?
(a) He is dressed for work.
(b) The fowlcock looks bad.
(c) He is busy.
(d) He doesn't have money.

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

5. What is the little boy afraid of as the preacher tries to convert him in Chapter 7?
(a) The dark of night.
(b) The crowd.
(c) The candle.
(d) The preacher's voice.

Short Answer Questions

1. On his walk toward the sea, what does G. realize about the corner when he stops there to say hello to Bob?

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

3. Whom do the boys end up running away from as they escape the landlord's gate?

4. What country does Boy Blue say Mr. Slime calls the bread basket of the world?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does G. want to leave the nice pebble he found on the beach where he can find it once again?

2. In Chapter 13, what is the difference between how the new landowner and the villagers feel about the homes they live in?

3. At the end of Chapter 2, Miss Foster tells her story of meeting with the landlord. How does she feel about this meeting?

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

5. When Trumper, Boy Blue and G. sneak onto the landlord's property to watch sailors and women dancing, what feelings are going through the boys' minds when the couple walk out onto the garden path to be alone?

6. The shoemaker makes a little speech in Chapter 5 to the men he is standing with as they watch the villagers buy food from the cart. What is the point of his speech?

7. What changes have people made in the village by Chapter 12 that Ma, according to Pa, would not have believed?

8. While G.'s friends Trumper and Boy Blue are excited and proud about G. going to high school, how does G.'s mother feel about it?

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

10. What is the head teacher trying to discover as he listens to Pa's reactions to what he has been told in Chapter 13?

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