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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. When does G.'s mother sing?
(a) When she was in the choir.
(b) When she is happy.
(c) In the shower.
(d) When G. tries to remember his father.

2. Who do Bob's and G.'s mother decide are not worth bothering about?
(a) Mr. Foster.
(b) The fowlcock.
(c) Gordon.
(d) The children.

3. When an old woman tells a schoolboy she had once been a slave, what does his teacher tell him?
(a) In America, a hundred years ago.
(b) Not in Barbados and a very long time ago.
(c) In Barbados and a very long time ago.
(d) In England, a short time ago.

4. Who does the old woman say is Mr. Slime's enemy?
(a) Mr. Creighton.
(b) Bob's father.
(c) The headmaster.
(d) Mr. Foster.

5. Whom do Mr. Foster and the overseer's brother ask for an opinion about Mr. Slime?
(a) A boy.
(b) Ma.
(c) Bob's mother.
(d) Miss Foster.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the shoemaker, Mr. Foster and the others talk about the possibility of a strike or losing their jobs, whom does the shoemaker say they should leave the thinking to?

2. Which teacher has his name on the envelope that the headmaster receives?

3. Miss Foster says the phrase "..pick up the weself" when telling Bob's mother and G.'s mother about the flood. What does "weself" mean?

4. To whom does the old man in Chapter 4 compare Mr. Slime?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Whom does it turn out that the men surrounding the villager's houses are waiting for and why?

3. Just before the head teacher leaves Pa's house, what does he have trouble doing?

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

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

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

7. The schoolboys discuss the possible nonexistence of the king of England. Why?

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

9. What is the story Boy Blue tells Trumper about Jon and the two weddings?

10. Who incites the woman in the crowd in Chapter 7 to finally come forward to be saved?

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