Checking Out Me History by John Agard

The poet John Agard was born in:

• Guyana in Africa

• Guyana in South America

• Guyana in South East Asia

• England in the United Kingdom

In 1977, John Agard left South America and went to live in...

• The USA

• Australia

• England

• Canada

Guyana was a British colony. Some of John Agard's ancestors were people from

• Australasia

• Japan

• Africa

• India

Some of John Agard's ancestors were likely to have been:

• Slaves

• Slave-owners

• Sailors

• Poets

Toussaint L'Ouverture was the leader of a slave revolt...

• who fought against the British in Guyana

• who fought against the Russians in Crimea

• who fought against the French in Haiti

• who fought against Columbus and Spain

"Black republic" means..

• A country with no kings where former slaves were in charge

• A difficult and dangerous place

• A country with a black king

• A country where people were treated as slaves

Nanny de Maroon helped to free slaves and fight the British in

• Guyana

• Jamaica

• South Africa

• the USA

Shaka Zulu was a leader who fought against Europeans in...

• The Caribbean

• Southern Africa

• South America

• North Africa

The Caribs and Arawaks were Indigenous people of

• The Carribbean

• Africa

• Australia

• New Zealand

Mary Seacole was a British - Jamaican nurse notes for her work in

• The First World War

• The Boer War (in Southern Africa)

• The Second World War

• The Crimean War (In areas that would be parts of Russia, Ukraine and other countries today)