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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 encourages Bambi to get married?
(a) Bots.
(b) Miss Foster.
(c) The white woman from England.
(d) Bambini.

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

3. An old woman walks circles in the night outside in Chapter 2. Why?
(a) She is very lost.
(b) She is drunk.
(c) She is practicing a dance.
(d) She has a high fever.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who begins to approach G. after Boy Blue and Trumper leave the little boy's open-air conversion?

2. When Miss Foster goes to see the landlord, Mr. Creighton, what does he do?

3. When G.'s mother sings in the house, in what way do the neighbors respond?

4. What magical words is Bob supposed to say just before a large wave touches his toes?

5. What device does the author use to let the reader know that the head teacher likes to drink ?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the beginning of Chapter 6, G. sees birds such as blackbirds, sparrows and doves. Which birds does he note are the most common victims of the human's traps? How are they compared to the doves?

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

3. The shoemaker read a book by J.B. Priestly that he has never forgotten. What is the main point the shoemaker took away from that book?

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

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

6. How does the schoolmaster looking a schoolboy in the eye make the boy feel as if he had done something wrong?

7. Why does one villager say, after reading the paper on the lamp post, that they must go and see Mr. Slime?

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

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

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

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