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Quiz on the poem Checking out me history by John Agard

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1
What is a dialect?
A group of shared idiolects
How people from the UK speak
How one individual speaks
The same as a language
2
What happened in 1066?
The American Civil War
Napoleon died
The queen was born
The battle of Hastings
3
How is Agard using juxtaposition?
He compares women and men
He contrasts white and black people
He contrasts silly nursery rhymes with historical figures
4
What does John Agard state that he is doing at the end of the poem?
Teaching history
Giving up on history
Failing history
Finding out about his own history
5
What does the poem say about education?
We should only learn about Black history
We should only learn about White history
It should be made relevant to those being taught
We should only be learning to read and write
6
What is an idiolect?
An individual's way of speaking
How people from South America speak
A group of shared ways of speaking
A language
7
Why is the poem written using two different structures?
To break up the poem
Because there are two narrators
To show there are two different historical perspectives
8
What does the quote '1066 and all dat' suggest?
Everyone should learn about the Battle of Hastings
Learning about the Battle of Hastings isn't important
History is the most important subject
9
What does John Agard mean by 'Dem tell me'?
White people have decided my education
I don't like my teachers
School is a waste of time
Other people think they know about me but they don't
10
What would John Agard rather be learning about?
Famous black historical figures
Nothing
Famous historical figures
British history