Half Caste

Which artist's work is used as imagery in Agard's poem?

• Van Gogh

• Picasso

• Dali

• Monet

Which musician's work is used as imagery in Agard's poem?

• Chopin

• Mozart

• Tchaikovsky

• Taylor Swift

What connects the three major choices of imagery in the first half of Agard's poem?

• They are often viewed as stereotypically middle-class, exclusionary, intellectual topics.

• They are all either produced by or include direct reference to British ethnic minorities.

• They are all things that Agard doesn't fully understand.

• There is no connection whatsoever. He chose at random.

Which of these statements are true about Agard's background?

• His father is from the Caribbean and his mother is Portuguese.

• He was born in Britain in 1977.

• He was born in Portugal in 1949.

• He was born in Guyana in 1949.

• He moved to Guyana in 1977.

Which of these statements are true about the term "Half-Caste"?

• It has connections to the caste system of strict class segregation in India.

• The term has roots in the Latin for "pure", and the Spanish and Portuguese for "race".

• Agard views it as akin to "half-blood" and "half-breed".

• One person self-identifying as "half-caste" doesn't mean others of the same ethnicity must.

Which of the statements about Half-Caste's structural features are true?

• Juxtaposition is used in the second stanza to show diversity creates something more rather than something less.

• The lack of conventional punctuation represents an unwillingness to conform to imposed conventional structures.

• The repetition in the second stanza reflects Agard's legitimate confusion about the situation, and is a polite request.

Which of these statements about Half-Caste's language features are true?

• The phonetic spelling and colloquialisms force the reader to hear the speaker's experience through the speaker's voice.

• The imagery of "half-a-hand" and "half-a-eye" is meant to connote the mistrust created through use of the term.

• The irony of "yu must come back tomorrow" references the experience of ethnic minorities with "polite" racists.

Where was John Agard born?

• Barbados

• Guyana

• Cuba

• Havana

True or false: half-caste is an offensive term to denote a person whose parents are of different races.

• True

• False

What does 'half-caste' have connotations of?

• impure

• intelligent

• inferior

• impeccable