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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is happening to the roads in Chapter 12?

3. Where is Ma having pain?

4. Who is the only person G. has an attachment to and is grateful for in high school?

5. In Chapter 8, by the trash heap, what does the landlord speak to the old woman about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the book, G. gets a strange feeling when something is ending or when he knows he will not see someone again. Discuss how wrapping the pebble in a grape leaf helps him cope with this feeling. What is going on in his life when he does this?

Essay Topic 3

When the villagers learn that there is fighting going on in the city, they cannot get any further information except that the fighting will spread to them.

How must this have made them feel? Explain each major character's emotions during this tense time.

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