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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. Nine-year-old G. sees things in his bed when his eyes open. What does he see?
2. In what country does G.'s grandmother live?
3. Who encourages Bambi to get married?
4. Which teacher has his name on the envelope that the headmaster receives?
5. How do the neighbors refer to G's day of celebration in order to console him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the story Boy Blue tells Trumper about Jon and the two weddings?
2. Why is it that Ma doesn't believe that Pa should be comparing Mr. Slime to Moses?
3. What is happening to Ma as she tries to wake Pa up from his sleep talking?
4. When Trumper, Boy Blue and G. sneak onto the landlord's property to watch sailors and women dancing, what feelings are going through the boys' minds when the couple walk out onto the garden path to be alone?
5. Why does G. feel guilty upon the death of his pigeon?
6. What is the pattern of the customers on the "corner"?
7. Why do Trumper, Boy Blue and G. decide to come forward and receive salvation in the open-air meeting?
8. When Trumper, Boy Blue and G. observe the fisherman in Chapter 6, what is he doing? Describe his attitude.
9. How does the schoolmaster looking a schoolboy in the eye make the boy feel as if he had done something wrong?
10. After being away for three years, what does G. learn about Trumper?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
In the story of Bambi, Bambini and Bots end up fighting furiously over Bambi's dead body. Things are fine until the English woman tells Bambi he has to be married to one of them. When he marries Bots, things begin to go downhill for Bambi. How can this story be a parable for Barbados and England?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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