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My Name is Leon Chapters 1-23

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What year does the text open in?

a)

1979

b)

1980

c)

1981

d)

1982

2.

What does Leon nickname Tina's son at the start of the novel?

a)

Wobbly Bobby

b)

Big B

c)

Mr Blobby

d)

Mr Tumble

3.

Who says ‘Just me and you and him. Always.’?

a)

Maureen

b)

Sylvia

c)

Carol

d)

Leon

4.

Jake's dad is called...

(a)  

5.

Leon's dad is called...

(a)  

6.

What is the first food Maureen gives Leon?

a)

Bacon Sandwiches

b)

Pork Pies

c)

Biscuits

d)

A Curly Curly

7.

Which TWO have been Leon's dreams?

a)

Being a soldier and leading troops to battle

b)

Needing to defeat a dragon to save a village

c)

Being an astronaut and leading a trip to the moon

8.

What present does Carol bring for Leon when she sees him in Chapter 14?

a)

A teddy bear

b)

A Dukes of Hazzard comic

c)

An action man

d)

A pen and pencil set

9.

What illness is Maureen taken into hospital with?

a)

A bacterial infection in the brain

b)

Bronchial Pneumonia

c)

Complications due to asthma

d)

Sepsis

10.

What type of bike does the Zebra bring Leon in Chapter 16?

(a)  

11.

When Leon first sees Tufty in Chapter 16, what does he think he looks like whizzing on his bike?

a)

A hawk

b)

The wind

c)

A wasp

d)

A plane

12.

The allotments are called ' (a)   Road Allotments'

13.

Why has Tufty been given his nickname?

a)

It's a joke because he's bald.

b)

He has tufts of hair coming out of his ears.

c)

He likes growing carrots, which have tufts of leaves.

d)

He has tufty hair.

14.

Tufty says 'The sun [...] is a (a)   '

15.

Who says 'you don’t have the monopoly on anger, on a sense of injustice'?

a)

Castro

b)

Tufty

c)

Devlin

d)

Mr Johnson

16.

One of Tufty's posters in his shed is a black man with a suit and tie. This could allude to...

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Tommie Smith

c)

John Carlos

d)

Huey Newton

17.

Who is the Royal Wedding that Sylvia is excited for?

a)

Elizabeth and Phillip

b)

Charles and Diana

c)

William and Kate

d)

Charles and Camilla

18.

What reggae star do Leon and Tufty first listen to? King...

(a)  

19.

What phrase does Leon imagine chanting to the dub beat?

a)

Dub-step

b)

King Tub-by

c)

Black Pow-er

d)

Baby Jake-y

20.

Kit de Waal's memoirs are called: Without (a)   and only Sometimes

21.

What was the name of the politician who wrote the Rivers of London Speech?

a)

Enoch Powell

b)

Peter Griffiths

22.

Which word means a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing?

a)

Stereotype

b)

Racism

c)

Xenophobia

23.

What is a common synonym of 'Institutional Racism'?

a)

Prejudice in the police

b)

Constant Racism

c)

Systemic Racism

d)

Educational discrimination

24.

What is the name of the generation of workers brought over from the Caribbean to support the UK post-war workforce?

(a)  

25.

What narrative perspective is My Name is Leon written in?

a)

Third person limited

b)

Unreliable narrator

c)

Third person omniscient

d)

Second person direct address

26.

What year was My Name is Leon published in?

(a)  

27.

What is the word for a reoccurring image in a text?

a)

motif

b)

theme

c)

symbol

d)

imagery

28.

What is the posh word for smell imagery?

a)

gustatory

b)

olfactory

c)

visual

d)

auditory

e)

tactile

29.

What does the IRA stand for?

a)

Irish Radical Activists

b)

Ireland's Roving Activists

c)

Irish Republican Army

d)

Irish Radical Attack

30.

What animal does Leon call the social worker with white and black striped hair?

a)

Badger

b)

Zebra

c)

Panda

d)

Skunk

31.

Write down as many things as you can remember about Carol from Chapters 1-23. Best responses get rewards!

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