Jamaica and England

Jamaica became independent from England in

• 1948

• 1960

• 1962

• 1964

Before becoming a British colony, Jamaica was under .........rule

• French

• Spanish

• Portuguese

• Dutch

The origin of the name Jamaica

• comes from Spanish

• comes from the Taino-Arawak name Xaymaica given to the island

• is derived from African dialets

Bob Marley had a famous group the the Wailer, a wailer is somebody who

• cries

• sings

• plays reggae

• dances

The Empire Windrush arrived in Tillbury near London in

• May 1946

• September 1950

• June 1949

• June 1948

On the Empire Windrush there were ..........passengers

• 492

• 1352

• 126

• 2564

The colours of the flag of Jamaica are

• green, red and yellow

• black, yellow and green

• blue, red and yellow

• white, red and green

What does this flag correspond to?

• the flag of Jamaica

• the flag of Jamaica when it was British

• the Rastafari flag

Jamaicans celebrate independence on

• May 12

• October 5

• September 18

• August 6

the Windrush scandal ..........(tick the wrong answer)

• broke out in 2012

• excluded all the people from the Windrush generation from British citizenship.

• traumatised the Jamaican community living in England.

• showed that the British government treated Jamaicans living in England in a discriminatory way.