Starter quiz
- 'Leave Taking' includes a number of characters who migrated to Britain from Jamaica. Why was there a mass migration movement to Britain after World War Two?
- Britain's welcoming attitude towards migrants
- the voyage to Britain was cheap and luxurious
- Jamaica's economy was still suffering after centuries of colonisation ✓
- Britain's post war prosperity
- employment - there was a post war labour shortage ✓
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- In Scene Two of 'Leave Taking', Enid says that there are no opportunities in Jamaica. What reason does Brod give for this?
- supernatural reasons
- continuing effects of colonialism ✓
- poor climate
- mass migration
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- In Scene Two of 'Leave Taking', why does Brod say he keeps his Jamaican passport up to date?
- he wants to go on holiday to Jamaica
- he was told to by Enid
- he is shaken by his recent experience with the Home Office ✓
- it is a legal requirement to have a passport
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- In Scene One of 'Leave Taking', Enid tells Mai that she sends letters to her family in Jamaica telling them 'how ______ things are over here'.
- 'hard' ✓
- Pinnock, in her introduction to 'Leave Taking', writes of her parents, 'My parents' generation had been ______ by a colonialist education that lionised [celebrated] all things British'.
- 'indoctrinated' ✓
- Pinnock's introduction to 'Leave Taking', reveals, 'Despite their [her parents] disappointment on entering a country that was often hostile [...] they didn't complain and rarely discussed the ______.'
- 'hardships' ✓
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