Third Term

When did Christopher Columbus arrive in Trinidad?

• 1958

• 1949

• 1948

What were the first encomiendas established in Trinidad and Tobago?

• Chaguanas, Siparia, Tunapuna, Caroni County

• Arauca, Tacarigua, Caura, San Juan

• Arima, Point Fortin, Princes Town

Who wrote The Repeating Island?

• Derek Walcott

• V. S. Naipaul

• Antonio Benítez-Rojo

What is the meaning of the Repeating iIsland?

• It suggests that Caribbean culture is like a repeating island, always changing but constantly repeating themes.

• The author presents a futuristic Caribbean space colony.

• It is a work of moral indignation, piracy, and anti-colonialism.

What are the main themes in the novel Miguel Street?

• B and C are correct.

• Unique moral values of a community.

• Escapism, male chauvinism, estrangement.

What is Indian Arrival Day?

• It is known as the 'Greatest Spectacle of the Earth' and features elaborate parades, music, and festivities with costumes.

• It commemorates the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, including Trinidad and Tobago.

• It is a national holiday in Trinidad and Tobago, celebrated on May 30th, and commemorates the arrival of the first Indian workers in 1845.

What is European colonization?

• The act of taking control of an area or country that is not yours, especially using force, and sending people from your own country to live there.

• The process by which European countries established control over foreign lands

• Both are correct.

Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 'for his novels and stories, in which the fantastic and the real combine in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting the life and conflicts of a continent'?

• Gabriel García Márquez

• Derek Walcott

• V. S. Naipaul

What is the nickname of Saint Lucia?

• Samana Cay

• Galiwinku

• Helen of the West Indies

What was the religion of the Palenqueros before the Spanish forced them to adopt Catholicism?

• Lumbalu

• Yoruba

• Hoodoo