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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 the headmaster's overwhelming feeling when he looks inside the envelope and thinks about its contents?
(a) Confusion as to what he should do.
(b) Guilt at what he sees.
(c) Love because of the photo he sees.
(d) Fear over the contents.

2. What new venture does Mr. Slime begin?
(a) A political party.
(b) A clothing store.
(c) The Sunday school.
(d) The Penny Bank.

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

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

5. Which woman had children by a baker, a butcher and an unknown man?
(a) Bob's mother.
(b) G. mother.
(c) Miss Foster.
(d) Ma.

Short Answer Questions

1. Through what means does the author convey to the reader that Mr. Slime is no longer a schoolteacher?

2. Why does the old man keep looking up at the landlord's house before he retires to bed?

3. What emotion does Bob's mother express when Bob smiles at G. being bathed?

4. What does the old man say Mr. Slime is telling the people they should own?

5. What does G.'s mother do every Sunday when he walks past the corner on his way to Sunday school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sort of changes in the village worry the landlord?

2. In what ways do the village overseers protect the villagers?

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

4. Why does the landlord say he may sell the land?

5. What is happening to Ma as she tries to wake Pa up from his sleep talking?

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

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

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

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

10. G. sees things in the night that disturb him. What does he see?

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