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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. In what country does G.'s grandmother live?
(a) Panama.
(b) America.
(c) Barbados.
(d) Trinidad.

2. In Chapter 7, what does Trumper say Mr. Slime wants to put an end to?
(a) Landlord's rents.
(b) Riots.
(c) Being "born again."
(d) Democracy.

3. What is one of the ways in which the old man and the old woman make a living?
(a) They make clothing.
(b) They sell cow's milk.
(c) They run a food cart.
(d) They sell goat's milk.

4. What role does Bob play in order to get past his mother, G.'s mother and Miss Foster?
(a) He is just himself.
(b) He acts like a lion.
(c) He becomes a rabbit.
(d) He pretends he is a bear.

5. Nine-year-old G. sees things in his bed when his eyes open. What does he see?
(a) Phantoms.
(b) His grandparents.
(c) Presents.
(d) Shadows.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does G.'s mother give him a lashing when he stops at the corner to say hello to Bob?

2. Whom do the boys end up running away from as they escape the landlord's gate?

3. What happens to the Foster family?

4. Why do the villagers believe that Mr. Slime resigned his teaching position?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Whom does Ma think Pa sounds like when he is talking in his sleep?

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

3. How does the author portray the village as being at war with itself in Chapter 1?

4. What technique does Bob use to get G. out of a beating in Chapter 2? How can this be related to the way black people in Barbados are treated?

5. What has given both G. and his mother some anxiety and confidence about how things will be in Trinidad for G.?

6. What sets the shoemaker apart from the other villagers?

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

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

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

10. What is the pattern of the customers on the "corner"?

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