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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 country does Boy Blue say Mr. Slime calls the bread basket of the world?
(a) Trinidad.
(b) Panama.
(c) America.
(d) England.

2. Why does G.'s next door neighbor box her son's, Bob's, ears?
(a) He got into a fight with G.
(b) He cursed out loud.
(c) He broke G.'s mother's pumpkin vine.
(d) He was late to supper.

3. 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?
(a) Mr. Slime.
(b) His boss.
(c) The students.
(d) His wife.

4. What author makes the shoemaker begin to think about colonial governors?
(a) Dickens.
(b) J.B. Priestly.
(c) George Lamming.
(d) Oscar Wilde.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Boy Blue as he is catching crabs on the wild side of the sea?

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

3. When Mr. Slime arrives with news of the strike in Chapter 5, what is the reaction of the men?

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

5. Why does the white gentleman get angry when Gordon tries to sell him a fowlcock in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does G. feel guilty upon the death of his pigeon?

3. After the landlords and overseers leave the village after assessing the roads after a flood, what do the young boys in town do for fun and why?

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

5. 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?

6. In what way have the villagers lost control of their lives in Chapter 9 when the men surround their homes?

7. When Bob tells G. that he wants to take different routes to the sea, he tells him not to run so that they can decide which route is really the quickest. When G. hesitates and then runs after Bob, what does their ultimate interaction represent?

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

9. What political and real estate changes have taken place in the village by Chapter 12?

10. 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?

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