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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 happens to G.'s grandfather before his mother is born?
(a) He dies.
(b) He joins the army.
(c) He is in a car accident.
(d) He goes to America.

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

3. What emotion does Bob's mother express when Bob smiles at G. being bathed?
(a) Love.
(b) Hate.
(c) Fury.
(d) Humor.

4. What is in the envelope that the head teacher receives from a boy?
(a) Two photographs.
(b) A letter.
(c) A newspaper clipping.
(d) One photograph of a man.

5. Who keeps the overseer from disturbing the preacher's conversion of sinners?
(a) The three boys who ran away.
(b) Mr. Creighton.
(c) Mr. Slime's speech.
(d) The crowd and the rebuker in the back.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the headmaster put to the back of his mind as being too big and important to deal with yet, after he has seen the contents of the envelope?

2. What is the sanitary water inspector checking for?

3. How do the neighbors refer to G's day of celebration in order to console him?

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

5. How is the sea different on the other side of the lighthouse?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. There are people known as "poor whites" on the island. What is their lot in life?

5. Describe the first assistant who makes high school tolerable for G.

6. What does Ma do when she thinks she hears Pa snoring loudly one night?

7. What is Pa's general take on the way things are in the village concerning Mr. Slime?

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

9. 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?

10. What is the old woman's view of owning land?

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