Starter quiz
- Brod is one of the five characters in 'Leave Taking'. What is true of his character?
- he is the only male character in the play ✓
- he is Enid's partner
- he migrated to England when he was younger ✓
- he visits Mai to ask for an obeah reading
- he is Del's father
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- In Scene Two of 'Leave Taking', Brod tells Enid off for not sharing her Jamaican roots with her children. He says, "They going ______ where they come from."
- 'forget' ✓
- In Scene Two of 'Leave Taking', Brod tells Enid off for calling her children "English girls" and ignoring their "Caribbean souls". He says, "You ______ these children up, Enid."
- 'mix' ✓
- In Scene Three of 'Leave Taking', Brod imitates talking in tongues. Why does he do this?
- he is having a religious experience
- he is engaging with his memories of a religious service in Jamaica ✓
- he wants to scare the Pastor
- he wants to anger Enid
- he is mocking those who talk in tongues
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- In Scene Seven of 'Leave Taking', Brod tells Del that her father faced daily racial discrimination at work. He says her father's colleagues didn't treat him like he was a " ______".
- 'human' ✓
- In Scene Two of 'Leave Taking', Enid and Brod discuss having to pay to become a citizen of Britain in a process called naturalisation. How has this process affected Brod?
- negatively - this is why he has begun drinking
- negatively - now he can no longer visit his family in Jamaica
- negatively - it has made him decide to move back to Jamaica
- negatively - his sense of his own Britishness has been destabilised ✓
- negatively - he is angry at the Home Office ✓
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