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- 1. Multiple Choice
What function was Benjy's family preparing to attend?
The Harvest Thanksgiving
The World Fair
The Harvest Festival
Church Service
- 2. Multiple Choice
Where is the story set?
Kingston, Jamaica
Kingstown, Jamaica
Plantation, Jamaica
Springville, Jamaica
- 3. Multiple Choice
What point of view is used in the story?
1st person
2nd person
3rd person
omniscient
- 4. Multiple Choice
What themes are found in the story? (Select All that apply)
Family Life
Superstition
Childhood Experience
Obsession
Religion
- 5. Fill in the Blank
Benjy's "new clothes" was compared to ______________coat of many colours. Fill in the blank.
- 6. Multiple Choice
The completed answer above "like ________coat of many colours" is an example of which literary devices? Tick all that apply.
Simile
metaphor
Allusion
pun
- 7. Open Ended
"His mother rubbed him down with an old cloth...the black serge was stitched very badly with white thread which was all his mother had...the sleeves of a print were once part of Mama's dress." What do these lines tell us about the family?
- 8. Multiple Choice
Papa was always impatient with Benjy because
Papa doubted that Benjy was his son
Papa believed Benjy always made him late
Papa believed Benjy got all Mama's attention
Benjy nagged Papa for ice cream
- 9. Multiple Choice
Select the FALSE statements from those provided below.
The Harvest Festival sale was to be held in the Commons
The people from Springville were regarded as "dark and mysterious"
Mama usually came home with a pair of new shoes, or a scarf, or an oilskin cloth for herself.
Papa wanted to buy a white shirt from the town vendors.
Mars Edgy was the name of the ice cream vendor
- 10. Multiple Choice
What distracted Benjy and Papa respectively at the event?
The light cake and the Extension Officer
a game of Crown and Anchor and a man in a purple shirt
the late hour and a feeling that people were laughing at him
ice cream and mama's movements
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