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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pa think that Ma would not have believed if she were alive?
(a) Television.
(b) The way things have changed.
(c) World War II.
(d) How old he looks.

2. Where do Trumper and Bob go after they have waited three hours to find out about the fighting in the city?
(a) They scale fences to get near the train lines.
(b) They go home.
(c) They walk to Pa's house.
(d) The run to the landlord's house.

3. What is the name of the colorful dish that G.'s mother cooks for him on his last evening in Barbados?
(a) Shrimp.
(b) Cuckoo.
(c) Callalloo.
(d) Stuffed crab.

4. According to Pa, what is "price" equal to?
(a) Gold.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Silver.
(d) Power.

5. In Chapter 12, G. goes to Pa's house and they begin to discuss how the village has changed. G. went to visit Pa to tell him something. What was it?
(a) He is joining the police force.
(b) He is going away.
(c) He is getting married.
(d) He is the new headmaster.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the old woman go down to the landlord's house?

2. From whom does G. receive letters in Chapter 11?

3. What happens to a large merchant ship in the Barbados harbor?

4. Where does the head teacher say he and Mr. Creighton plan to send Pa?

5. What does the shoemaker say the author J.B. Priestly prophesied?

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