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WorksheetsMy Name is Leon Chapters 1-23
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 30mins
What year does the text open in?
1979
1980
1981
1982
What does Leon nickname Tina's son at the start of the novel?
Wobbly Bobby
Big B
Mr Blobby
Mr Tumble
Who says ‘Just me and you and him. Always.’?
Maureen
Sylvia
Carol
Leon
Jake's dad is called...
(a)
Leon's dad is called...
(a)
What is the first food Maureen gives Leon?
Bacon Sandwiches
Pork Pies
Biscuits
A Curly Curly
Which TWO have been Leon's dreams?
Being a soldier and leading troops to battle
Needing to defeat a dragon to save a village
Being an astronaut and leading a trip to the moon
What present does Carol bring for Leon when she sees him in Chapter 14?
A teddy bear
A Dukes of Hazzard comic
An action man
A pen and pencil set
What illness is Maureen taken into hospital with?
A bacterial infection in the brain
Bronchial Pneumonia
Complications due to asthma
Sepsis
What type of bike does the Zebra bring Leon in Chapter 16?
(a)
When Leon first sees Tufty in Chapter 16, what does he think he looks like whizzing on his bike?
A hawk
The wind
A wasp
A plane
The allotments are called ' (a) Road Allotments'
Why has Tufty been given his nickname?
It's a joke because he's bald.
He has tufts of hair coming out of his ears.
He likes growing carrots, which have tufts of leaves.
He has tufty hair.
Tufty says 'The sun [...] is a (a) '
Who says 'you don’t have the monopoly on anger, on a sense of injustice'?
Castro
Tufty
Devlin
Mr Johnson
One of Tufty's posters in his shed is a black man with a suit and tie. This could allude to...
Martin Luther King Jr.
Tommie Smith
John Carlos
Huey Newton
Who is the Royal Wedding that Sylvia is excited for?
Elizabeth and Phillip
Charles and Diana
William and Kate
Charles and Camilla
What reggae star do Leon and Tufty first listen to? King...
(a)
What phrase does Leon imagine chanting to the dub beat?
Dub-step
King Tub-by
Black Pow-er
Baby Jake-y
Kit de Waal's memoirs are called: Without (a) and only Sometimes
What was the name of the politician who wrote the Rivers of London Speech?
Enoch Powell
Peter Griffiths
Which word means a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing?
Stereotype
Racism
Xenophobia
What is a common synonym of 'Institutional Racism'?
Prejudice in the police
Constant Racism
Systemic Racism
Educational discrimination
What is the name of the generation of workers brought over from the Caribbean to support the UK post-war workforce?
(a)
What narrative perspective is My Name is Leon written in?
Third person limited
Unreliable narrator
Third person omniscient
Second person direct address
What year was My Name is Leon published in?
(a)
What is the word for a reoccurring image in a text?
motif
theme
symbol
imagery
What is the posh word for smell imagery?
gustatory
olfactory
visual
auditory
tactile
What does the IRA stand for?
Irish Radical Activists
Ireland's Roving Activists
Irish Republican Army
Irish Radical Attack
What animal does Leon call the social worker with white and black striped hair?
Badger
Zebra
Panda
Skunk
Write down as many things as you can remember about Carol from Chapters 1-23. Best responses get rewards!
