The Boy Who Loved Ice Cream

What function was Benjy's family preparing to attend?

• The Harvest Thanksgiving

• The World Fair

• The Harvest Festival

• Church Service

Where is the story set?

• Kingston, Jamaica

• Kingstown, Jamaica

• Plantation, Jamaica

• Springville, Jamaica

What point of view is used in the story?

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person

• omniscient

What themes are found in the story? (Select All that apply)

• Family Life

• Superstition

• Childhood Experience

• Obsession

• Religion

Benjy's "new clothes" was compared to ______________coat of many colours. Fill in the blank.

The completed answer above "like ________coat of many colours" is an example of which literary devices? Tick all that apply.

• Simile

• metaphor

• Allusion

• pun

"His mother rubbed him down with an old cloth...the black serge was stitched very badly with white thread which was all his mother had...the sleeves of a print were once part of Mama's dress." What do these lines tell us about the family?

Papa was always impatient with Benjy because

• Papa doubted that Benjy was his son

• Papa believed Benjy always made him late

• Papa believed Benjy got all Mama's attention

• Benjy nagged Papa for ice cream

Select the FALSE statements from those provided below.

• The Harvest Festival sale was to be held in the Commons

• The people from Springville were regarded as "dark and mysterious"

• Mama usually came home with a pair of new shoes, or a scarf, or an oilskin cloth for herself.

• Papa wanted to buy a white shirt from the town vendors.

• Mars Edgy was the name of the ice cream vendor

What distracted Benjy and Papa respectively at the event?

• The light cake and the Extension Officer

• a game of Crown and Anchor and a man in a purple shirt

• the late hour and a feeling that people were laughing at him

• ice cream and mama's movements