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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does the water inspector check the drinking water?
2. What does the head teacher do when a student laughs during his presentation about pennies given on Empire Day?
3. What is the only thing that Ma believes matters?
4. What happens to G.'s grandfather before his mother is born?
5. Who is the "Governor in Little England" the equivalent of in "Big England"?
Short Essay Questions
1. G. sees things in the night that disturb him. What does he see?
2. In Chapter 13, what is the difference between how the new landowner and the villagers feel about the homes they live in?
3. When Boy Blue tells Trumper and G. that Mr. Slimes says that in America you can get all you want to eat and you don't have to cook it yourself, how do they react?
4. What changes have people made in the village by Chapter 12 that Ma, according to Pa, would not have believed?
5. How does the schoolmaster looking a schoolboy in the eye make the boy feel as if he had done something wrong?
6. In what way does Pa compare Mr. Slime to Moses?
7. What has given both G. and his mother some anxiety and confidence about how things will be in Trinidad for G.?
8. 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?
9. Who are the "vagabonds" the old woman speaks of to Pa?
10. When one of the boys picks up a fallen envelope that the teacher has dropped, what does he think he should do with it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter 6, G. is watching clouds as he walks toward the sea. He sees different figures and scenes in the clouds. What do these "scenes" G. sees represent or symbolize? Be specific.
Essay Topic 2
In Chapter 3, the schoolmaster is deciding what to do about the photos he believes belong to Mr. Slime. What different scenarios and outcomes go through his mind? Are they legitimate?
Essay Topic 3
What are G.'s feeling about the pebble in Chapter 11? Can these feelings be related to anything or anywhere else in the book? Who or where and why?
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