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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. What is Barbados known as in comparison with the Mother Country?

2. Who keeps the overseer from disturbing the preacher's conversion of sinners?

3. Who is the "Governor in Little England" the equivalent of in "Big England"?

4. Where is the drinking water for the house kept?

5. G.'s mother hits him with a broken branch after the fence comes down. Why?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way have the villagers lost control of their lives in Chapter 9 when the men surround their homes?

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

3. At the end of Chapter 2, Miss Foster tells her story of meeting with the landlord. How does she feel about this meeting?

4. What is the head teacher trying to discover as he listens to Pa's reactions to what he has been told in Chapter 13?

5. What is the story Boy Blue tells Trumper about Jon and the two weddings?

6. Why do the villagers trust Mr. Slime?

7. Why does the landlord say he may sell the land?

8. What does the reader know about Pa and Ma?

9. Why is G.'s mother acting so annoyed with him on his last night at home?

10. What sets the shoemaker apart from the other villagers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does the head teacher whip the boy with such vehemence in Chapter 3? Is this action within his nature and true to his character? How does he feel after the whipping? Is there any remorse on his part?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

The last phrase in the book has G. telling the reader, "...I had said farewell, farewell to the land." Based upon the book as a whole, what is G. telling the reader by this point? What does "the land" represent, other than its literal meaning?

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