Grade 6 End-of-Term Social Studies Test

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Mr. Zahir Zankar is an indentured worker from Calcutta. He and his cousin, Jaggur, who also arrived in Jamaica in 1888. They were both placed on Bybrook Sugar Estate near Linstead, St. Catherine. They are now completing their five-year Indentureship and looking forward to moving to Spanish Town to open a small jewellery store there. They do not intend to return to Calcutta as a famine is there and employment is still hard to find. People there are unable to buy jewellery because they have very little money.

These cousins are from___ and are most likely to be___:

• A. China/Muslims

• B. China/Christians

• C. India/ Hindus

• D. India/Jews

Read the information in the text box and the answer the questions below it.

Mr. Zahir Zankar is an indentured worker from Calcutta. He and his cousin, Jaggur, who also arrived in Jamaica in 1888. They were both placed on Bybrook Sugar Estate near Linstead, St. Catherine. They are now completing their five-year Indentureship and looking forward to moving to Spanish Town to open a small jewellery store there. They do not intend to return to Calcutta as a famine is there and employment is still hard to find. People there are unable to buy jewellery because they have very little money.

It is very likely that they would have celebrated ___ in Calcutta.

• Passover

• Crop Over

• Easter

• Diwali

Read the information in the text box and the answer the questions below it.

Mr. Zahir Zankar is an indentured worker from Calcutta. He and his cousin, Jaggur, who also arrived in Jamaica in 1888. They were both placed on Bybrook Sugar Estate near Linstead, St. Catherine. They are now completing their five-year Indentureship and looking forward to moving to Spanish Town to open a small jewellery store there. They do not intend to return to Calcutta as a famine is there and employment is still hard to find. People there are unable to buy jewellery because they have very little money.

Both men emigrated to Jamaica because of:

• Unemployment in Calcutta

• Famine in their homeland

• Natural disasters in Calcutta

• Both a and b

Read the information in the text box and the answer the questions below it.

Mr. Zahir Zankar is an indentured worker from Calcutta. He and his cousin, Jaggur, who also arrived in Jamaica in 1888. They were both placed on Bybrook Sugar Estate near Linstead, St. Catherine. They are now completing their five-year Indentureship and looking forward to moving to Spanish Town to open a small jewellery store there. They do not intend to return to Calcutta as a famine is there and employment is still hard to find. People there are unable to buy jewellery because they have very little money.

In which parish were the men placed?

• St. Thomas

• Clarendon

• Westmoreland

• St Catherine

Read the information then identify whether the sentence is Staed or Not Stated.

Mr. Zahir Zankar is an indentured worker from Calcutta. He and his cousin, Jaggur, who also arrived in Jamaica in 1888. They were both placed on Bybrook Sugar Estate near Linstead, St. Catherine. They are now completing their five-year Indentureship and looking forward to moving to Spanish Town to open a small jewellery store there. They do not intend to return to Calcutta as a famine is there and employment is still hard to find. People there are unable to buy jewellery because they have very little money.

Both men have the same surname.

• Stated

• Not Stated

Read the information then identify whether the sentence is Staed or Not Stated.

Mr. Zahir Zankar is an indentured worker from Calcutta. He and his cousin, Jaggur, who also arrived in Jamaica in 1888. They were both placed on Bybrook Sugar Estate near Linstead, St. Catherine. They are now completing their five-year Indentureship and looking forward to moving to Spanish Town to open a small jewellery store there. They do not intend to return to Calcutta as a famine is there and employment is still hard to find. People there are unable to buy jewellery because they have very little money.

The cousins learnt jewel-making in Calcutta.

• Stated

• Not stated

Read the information then identify whether the sentence is Staed or Not Stated.

Mr. Zahir Zankar is an indentured worker from Calcutta. He and his cousin, Jaggur, who also arrived in Jamaica in 1888. They were both placed on Bybrook Sugar Estate near Linstead, St. Catherine. They are now completing their five-year Indentureship and looking forward to moving to Spanish Town to open a small jewellery store there. They do not intend to return to Calcutta as a famine is there and employment is still hard to find. People there are unable to buy jewellery because they have very little money.

Bybrook Sugar Estate is near to Linstead.

• Bybrook Sugar Estate is near to Linstead.

• Bybrook Sugar Estate is far from Linstead.

• Bybrook Sugar Estate is in Linstead.

• Bybrook Sugar Estate is not related to Linstead.

Which list contains the contributions of Chinese indentured servants to our culture?

• Sweet sour meats, Diwali, Dragon dance, pak choi

• Sweet and sour meats, grocery shops, Chinese New Year

• Dragon dance, Chinese New Year, Sari

• Dragon dance, Chinese New Year, tambourine

The Harrisons are celebrating their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary on a ten day cruise around the Caribbean. In Barbados, they learnt about an old secular festival called____ that celebrated the end of the sugarcane crop every year.

This festival is MOST likely to be

• Passover

• Hosay

• Crop Over

• Carnival

The cruise ship also stopped in Trinidad where they participated in a spectacular road march. They were definitely participating in secular event called:

• Diwali

• Carnival

• Crop Over

• Jonkannu