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

2. How does the water inspector check the drinking water?
(a) He never checks it.
(b) He scrapes the side of the container with a long spoon.
(c) He tastes it.
(d) He tests it in a lab.

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

4. When Miss Foster goes to see the landlord, Mr. Creighton, what does he do?
(a) He gives her money and a cup of tea.
(b) He makes her empty promises.
(c) He tells her to go home.
(d) He yells at her.

5. Which of the three boys in Chapter 7 end up being converted by the preacher?
(a) Trumper.
(b) All of them.
(c) Boy Blue.
(d) G.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role does Bob play in order to get past his mother, G.'s mother and Miss Foster?

2. When the shoemaker talks about Marcus Garvey in Chapter 5, why don't some people like it when he tells them they are brothers because he is from Africa?

3. Which season in the village could change everything?

4. When does G.'s mother sing?

5. Who are Pa and Ma?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. How does the Foster family cope with the flood?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. After being away for three years, what does G. learn about Trumper?

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