Coming to England

1.What genre is Coming to England?

• autobiography
• biography
• historical fiction
• diary

2. Where did Floella live before ‘coming to England’?

• Trinidad
• Barbados
• Tobago
• Jamacia

3. Which well known traditional stories did Dardie tell Floella and her brothers and sisters?

• Brothers Grimm fairy tales
• Roald Dahl stories
• Tales of Anansi the spider
• The Chronicles of Narnia

4.What did Marmie give to her children everyday that they really didn’t like?

• Gooseberries
• Cough medicine
• Cod liver oil
• Vegetables

5.What did the children sing everyday at school?

• Auld Lang Syne
• The Lord’s Prayer
• Rule Britannia
• The National Anthem

6. What time did Floella and Sandra have to get up to clean the house when they were staying with their cruel relatives?

• 6
• 7
• 5
• 4

7. When did Floella come to England?

• 1790
• 1910
• 1960
• 1850

8. How many rooms did the Benjamin family house have at 1 Mayfield Avenue?

• Two
• Three
• Four
• One

9. How did the children at Floella’s English school make her feel?

• Violent and angry
• Happy and settled
• Welcomed and comfortable
• Sad and shy

10. What did Marmie tell her children was their “passport to life”?

• Wealth
• Fame
• Connections to important people
• Education