POETRY
SHORT STORIES
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
SHAKESPEARE
CARIBBEAN DRAMA
200
In the poem Little Boy Crying, the young child alludes to which fairy tale when describing his hatred towards his father?

Jack and the Beanstalk 

200

In The Day the World almost Came to an End, the unnamed narrator imagines the very pits of hell as she hears the skies breaking open, ending the world. Turns out it was just this. 

an airplane

200
The novel takes place in this fictional town.

Maycomb County

200

This character who has passed away before the events of the play is responsible for Ariel's captivity. 

Sycorax

200

This character, aptly named due to his middle position in the family, believes he can beat the devil through education. 

Mi Jean

400

The most prominent theme in the poem Ol' Higue is ..........

superstition/the supernatural 

400

"When the boy arrived on the four o'clock train, lo and behold he turned out to be colored!" These are the the thoughts of Mrs. Osborn, a character from which Langston Hughes story?

Berry

400

"Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird," are words uttered by this main character in the novel. 

Atticus

400

In Act 1 Scene 2, Caliban explains to Miranda that she taught him language and his "profit on't" is that he now knows how to do this. 

curse

400

The stage directions reveal that the play is set primarily in this location 

a forest

600

In the poem Dreaming Black Boy, James Berry makes ample use of repetition, beginning each stanza of the poem with these two words. 

I wish 

600

Olive Senior takes a break from feminist themes in this short story which features a boy craving the titular dessert, only to have it fall to the ground in the end. 

The Boy who Loved Ice Cream

600

Charles Baker Harris also known affectionately by this name is Jem and Scout's summer neighbor and friend. 

Dill

600

In the play, these two characters conspire to assassinate Prospero, thus causing his exile on the island. 

Alonso and Antonio

600

Critics argue that this character symbolizes an outcast produced by black mothers and white sperm donors who exists in a space of inbetweeness, claimed by neither black nor white.

Bolom

800

In this poem by Martin Carter, the author details Guyana's oppression and misery when foreign soldiers invade his country. 

This is the dark time, my love

800

John Wickham explores the turbulent relationship that exists between two brothers, ironic in part because they are not just brothers, but also.......

twins

800

In the novel, Jem and Scout discover what shocking yet fascinating fact about their father?

He is the best shot in town

800

At the end of the play, Prospero gives up his magic by symbolically drowning his book and doing this to his staff.

breaking it/burying it

800

One of the primary themes in the play when read allegorically is this, which is made clear when the devil, disguised as the Planter, uses French Creole and commands his black slaves as they work his plantation.

Colonialism 

1000

"And all is seared with trade, bleared, smeared with toil;/And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell" are lines from which 1877 poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

God's Grandeur

1000

In the story Blackout, this Jamaican author explores the encounter between a white American woman and a black Jamaican man. 

Roger Mais

1000

Throughout the novel, the reclusive Boo Radley gives Jem and Scout many small gifts. What is the first of these gifts?

chewing gum

1000

The inclusion of Juno at the masque is fitting if Prospero would like to be a grandfather, as she is the goddess of this. 

fertility 

1000

In the play, Walcott uses this Greek dramatic convention featuring the Frog and other forest creatures to comment on the main action of the play. 

A chorus