Starter quiz
- In Scene Two of 'Leave Taking', why does Del walk out of the family home?
- She has to go to work.
- She is going out dancing.
- Enid asks her to leave.
- Enid slaps her during an argument. ✓
- She has an argument with Brod.
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- In Scene One of 'Leave Taking', Viv says she wants to visit the West Indies. What reason does she give?
- She's never been on holiday before.
- She wants to go to university there.
- She has a close relationship with her grandmother who still lives there.
- To help her understand her identity. ✓
- She knows her mother wants her to go.
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- In Scene Two of 'Leave Taking', a Pastor is coming to visit the family home. How does Enid prepare?
- praying
- making sure her family and Brod are smartly dressed ✓
- making sure Del is out of the way
- cleaning ✓
- cooking ✓
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- In her introduction to 'Leave Taking', Pinnock describes Enid as 'caught between ______ worlds'.
- 'two' ✓
- In Scene Two of 'Leave Taking', Enid expresses that she's happy about the educational opportunities her children have in Britain. She says, 'How many a my sister children back home going to ______'.
- 'university' ✓
- In Scene One of 'Leave Taking', Enid tells Mai about how difficult she finds her sister's frequent requests for money. She says, 'She must think I'm living like a ______'.
- 'millionaire' ✓
Exit quiz
- In Scene Three of 'Leave Taking', what do we find out about Mooma?
- She is ill.
- She is religious.
- She is Brod's mother.
- She will visit England.
- She has died. ✓
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- In Scene Three of 'Leave Taking', what does Enid tell Viv happens when she returns to Jamaica?
- People beg her to take them back to England with her.
- People welcome her.
- People steal things from her. ✓
- People beg her to return to Jamaica.
- People beg her for money. ✓
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- In Scene Three of 'Leave Taking', what happens when Brod puts on a record?
- Enid tells him to turn it off.
- Enid and Brod start talking in tongues.
- Enid and Brod dance. ✓
- Viv complains about the choice of record.
- The record is interrupted by a phone call.
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- In Scene Three of 'Leave Taking', Brod reads a list of chores that Enid wants to complete before the Pastor arrives. He says, 'Boy, we really turn ______ now.'
- 'English' ✓
- In Scene Three of 'Leave Taking', Enid and Brod recall a church service in Jamaica. Enid says, 'That service was ______.'
- 'sweet' ✓
- In Scene Three of 'Leave Taking', Brod thinks about the way in which religious fervour was expressed when he was younger. He says, it was about 'feeling the spirit ______ up inside you.'
- 'flame' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- A Pastor comes over to Enid’s house for dinner.
- Brod is critical of the sanitised version of the church he experiences in the UK.
- Enid is not supportive of Viv’s desire to visit Jamaica and delay her education.
- Pinnock describes Enid’s predicament as being "caught between two worlds".
- Enid learns of the death of her mother.
Common misconception
Brod is not religious.
Consider the admiration Brod has for Pastor Chully Johnson.
Keywords
Pastor - A religious leader of a Christian church.
Stage directions - Instructions written in a play script (often in italics) which explain something about the staging or how an actor should deliver a line.
Talking in tongues - When you speak in an unknown language during a religious service; considered communication from God.
Predicament - A synonym for problem or difficulty.
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