Jamaica Kincaid, On Seeing England for the First Time
Read On Seeing England for the First Time and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.
1. What English-made item is “central” to the narrator’s father’s character?
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2. After which English sovereign are three members of the narrator’s family named?
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3. The narrator discusses how disappointing reality can be when you’ve built up grand ideas of something in your head. Besides her own, whose disappointment does the narrator describe?
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4. What bad behavior does the narrator say “seemed quite appropriate” for the English?
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5. What does the narrator see that makes her wish England “had just all died”?
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