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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. Which teacher has his name on the envelope that the headmaster receives?
2. Who does the old woman say is Mr. Slime's enemy?
3. Miss Foster says the phrase "..pick up the weself" when telling Bob's mother and G.'s mother about the flood. What does "weself" mean?
4. What is Barbados known as in comparison with the Mother Country?
5. What happens to the Foster family?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the pattern of the customers on the "corner"?
2. The schoolboys discuss the possible nonexistence of the king of England. Why?
3. There are people known as "poor whites" on the island. What is their lot in life?
4. What is the main thing that Trumper has learned in America that has changed his life?
5. What sets the shoemaker apart from the other villagers?
6. What has given both G. and his mother some anxiety and confidence about how things will be in Trinidad for G.?
7. What does Ma do when she thinks she hears Pa snoring loudly one night?
8. Why do Trumper, Boy Blue and G. decide to come forward and receive salvation in the open-air meeting?
9. Why does one villager say, after reading the paper on the lamp post, that they must go and see Mr. Slime?
10. Why does the landlord say he may sell the land?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The overseer tries to disrupt the open-air meeting to "arrest" the boys in Chapter 7.
Who does the overseer really represent?
Why does the author have the boys "saved" by the preacher?
Consider the role of religion in the village when you form you answers.
Essay Topic 2
In what ways can the inspector in Chapter 3 and the overseer in Chapter 2 be compared? How are they alike? How are they different?
Essay Topic 3
How do the riots in Trinidad, the village dock workers' strike and cricket teams end up belonging in the same line of events in the thoughts of the shoemaker? How does he come to the conclusions about what Barbados should be like?
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