Starter quiz
- If you were writing an essay on 'Leave Taking', you would start each paragraph with a topic sentence. What makes a good topic sentence?
- one that summarises each of the ideas that you will write about
- one that includes quotations from the text
- one that summarises the text you are writing about
- one that has one main idea, which will be the focus of your paragraph ✓
- one that analyses, at word level, a quotation
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- How does 'Leave Taking' end?
- with Mai reading Enid's palm
- with Viv getting her exam results
- with Brod telling Del about her father's abuse of her mother
- with Del deciding to visit the West Indies
- with Del reading Enid's palm ✓
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- In scene eight, Enid comes to Mai's house for an obeah reading. Who does she find there?
- Mai, very ill.
- Del, an obeah woman. ✓
- Viv, rejecting university.
- Brod, drunk.
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- In scene five of 'Leave Taking', we find out Del has moved in with Mai. What inferences could we make about Del given this plot development?
- She feels some kind of connection with Mai. ✓
- The friends she spoke of in scene one are not reliable. ✓
- Enid asked Mai to look after Del.
- Del is determined to become an obeah woman.
- Del knows Mai is ill and needs her.
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- In scene seven of 'Leave Taking', what does Brod tell Del?
- where her father is
- that Viv is going to study Black Studies at university
- that Mai is ill
- that her father used to beat her mother ✓
- that he is going to return to Jamaica
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- In scene seven of 'Leave Taking', Brod accuses Del of thinking of her mother as what?
- a joker
- a victim
- ungrateful
- evil
- a monster ✓
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