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CARIBBEAN WRITING

Test your knowledge of writers and writing from the Caribbean islands by taking the EnCompass Readers' Quiz (if you need some help, you'll find all the answers within the Caribbean section of the 'World' compass).

 

 Question 1.
What was the title of V.S. Naipaul's first work of travel writing, a much reprinted account of his journey in 1950 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad?

The Middle Passage

The Western Passage

The Long Passage

The Back Passage

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 Question 2.

Which playwright, poet, short-story and children's writer was born on 21 June 1949 in British Guiana (now Guyana), worked for the Guyana Sunday Chronicle before moving to England in 1977, and has published collections including Mangoes and Bullets and Weblines?

Derek Walcott

John Agard

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Kwame Dawes

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 Question 3.
Who wrote the novel Bethany Bettany, a tragic tale of a child abandoned by her mother to hostile relatives, and of Guyana, a mixed up and confused country searching for an identity?

David Dabydeen

Fred D'Aguiar

Robert Antoni

Lawrence Scott

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 Question 4.
The poems in Jean 'Binta' Breeze's collection The Arrival of Brighteye are songs of innocence and experience. But among the hills of which island are these striking evocations of childhood set?

Antigua

St Lucia

Trinidad

Jamaica

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 Question 5.
Who write the novel Annie John, the short story collection At the Bottom of the River, and the Autobiography of My Mother - all based in the Caribbean?

Jamaica Kincaid

Margaret Atwood

Zee Edgell

Zadie Smith

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 Question 6.

What is the title of Grace Nichols' first book, a long and powerful poem tracing the journey from Africa to the Caribbean of black women?

I is a Long-Legged Woman

I is a Long-Awaited Woman

I is a Long-Memoried Woman

I is a Long-Travelled Woman

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 Question 7.

Which Trinidadian fiction writer published the books Aelred's Sin, Ballad for the New World and Witchbroom?

V.S. Naipaul

Colin Channer

Lawrence Scott

Samuel Selvon

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 Question 8.
Which of Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott's collections is an epic poem in which he invokes the lives and voices of the people of the Caribbean through Greek myth and epic, drawing on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey?

The Prodigal

Omeros

The Castaway

In a Green Night

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 Question 9.
What's the title of Samuel Selvon's classic novel about the Windrush generation of Caribbean immigrants to the UK?

The Lovely Londoners

The Lonely Londoners

The Lowly Londoners

The Lost Londoners

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 Question 10.
Which London-based poet, originally born in Jamaica, is widely regarded as the father of 'dub poetry', a term he coined to describe the way a number of reggae DJs blended music and verse?

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Derek Walcott

Kwame Dawes

E.A. Markham

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