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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 Barbados known as in comparison with the Mother Country?
(a) Little Barbados.
(b) Little England.
(c) Island England.
(d) The Queen's Country.

2. 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.

3. G.'s mother hits him with a broken branch after the fence comes down. Why?
(a) He made the fence come down.
(b) He won't help her.
(c) He laughs at the fence coming down.
(d) He is standing there, naked, for all to see.

4. What point of view does the author use in Chapter 3?
(a) Second person.
(b) Unreliable first person.
(c) Third person, omniscient.
(d) First person.

5. Which two women get into a physical brawl in Chapter 5?
(a) Sheila Grimes and Baby Parker.
(b) Miss Foster and Bob's mother.
(c) Miss Foster and Sheila Grimes.
(d) Ma and the old woman.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the only thing that Ma believes matters?

3. Where do Trumper, Boy Blue and G. run to as they escape being chased in Chapter 7?

4. Why does G.'s next door neighbor box her son's, Bob's, ears?

5. What country does Boy Blue say Mr. Slime calls the bread basket of the world?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. When Trumper, Boy Blue and G. observe the fisherman in Chapter 6, what is he doing? Describe his attitude.

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

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

8. 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?

9. When the author compares the inspector and the head teacher in Chapter 3, how does he do so?

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

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