Checking Out Me History

Question 1

Quote 1: dem

Answer 1

“Dem tell me” who is dem?? Lies

Question 2

Quote 2: bandage eye

Answer 2

“Bandage up me eye” historical negation / falsification

Question 3

Quote 3: italics

Answer 3

Stanza in italics to symbolise truth

Question 4

Quote 4: carver

Answer 4

“I carving out me own identity”

Question 5

Quote 5: fish and spoon

Answer 5

“Dem tell me bout de fish ran away with de spoon” nursery tale from western culture

Question 6

Quote 6: star among us

Answer 6

“ a healing star among the wounded” Mary seacole

Question 7

Quote 7: Columbus

Answer 7

“Dem tell me about Columbus and 1942” missing details about the arawaks and Caribbean inhabitants

Question 8

Context: touuisant louverte

Answer 8

General of Haiti during Haitian revolution

Question 9

Context: Nanny de maroon

Answer 9

Leader of Jamaican nations formerly enslaved Africans

Question 10

Context: Shaka Zulu

Answer 10

Former king of Zulu kingdom

Question 11

Context: the caribs and the arawaks

Answer 11

Inhabitants of islands in the. Arrive an sea that Columbus met

Question 12

Mary seacole

Answer 12

British nurse and business woman in Crimean war