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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 happens to the Foster family?
(a) They emigrate to America.
(b) They adopt many children.
(c) They leave the village.
(d) They lose their house in the flood.

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

3. Why does the mother groan in Chapter 1?
(a) She is hungry.
(b) She has lost her money.
(c) She is in a lot of pain.
(d) She feels that the kitchen is in a mess.

4. What does G.'s mother say about everything that displeases her?
(a) "Too bad."
(b) "Oh, no!"
(c) "I'm angry now."
(d) "It's a shame."

5. What makes the drinking water give G. a belly ache?
(a) Mosquitos are in it.
(b) Someone else drank from it.
(c) rain water got into it.
(d) Bacteria.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom does Boy Blue tell the others to keep the secret of the fisherman?

2. The boys standing under the pipe in Chapter 3 devise a plan to retaliate against the head teacher. What is the plan?

3. How is Trumper able to get his two friends inside the gate of the landlord's home?

4. Whom do Mr. Foster and the overseer's brother ask for an opinion about Mr. Slime?

5. Nine-year-old G. sees things in his bed when his eyes open. What does he see?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does G. remember about his family origins?

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

5. What information does the old drunken woman give the villagers in Chapter 9? How is it taken?

6. 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?

7. Why is it that Ma doesn't believe that Pa should be comparing Mr. Slime to Moses?

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

9. G. sees things in the night that disturb him. What does he see?

10. In what way does Pa compare Mr. Slime to Moses?

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