Reading Comprehension Quiz (Jamaica Kincaid, “On Seeing England for the First Time”)

Reading Comprehension Quiz

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. Click the submit button when finished.

Question 13.1 What can be inferred about Kincaid’s perception of her identity by these lines: “England was a special jewel all right, and only special people got to wear it. The people who got to wear England were English people”?

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Question 13.2 What does Kincaid wish for the audience to understand about England when she compares it to Jerusalem?

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Question 13.3 In paragraph 2, Kincaid lists for the reader how she was familiar with the greatness of England. What is the intent of this paragraph?

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Question 13.4 In paragraph 3, Kincaid writes that she had “no longing […] to put a shape to those three words…” What to what three words is she referring?

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Question 13.5 Kincaid describes the “other views, subtler ones, softer, almost not there – but these were the ones that made the most lasting impression on me” and then goes on to provide contrasts between the England that was described to her and the world where she grew up. Why does she compare them?

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Question 13.6 In paragraph 7, Kincaid writes that “To avert my gaze was to fall back into something from which I had been rescued, a hole filled with nothing, and that was the word for everything about me, nothing.” How does Kincaid feel about English colonial power?

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Question 13.7 When Kincaid finally travels to England, what is her reaction?

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Question 13.8 On Kincaid’s trip to England, she is guided by a friend. Her friend had left England because “it had not been kind to her.” Kincaid also reports that “she didn’t like England, but she didn’t like me not liking it too.” How does this reflect the crux of Kincaid’s point of feeling as if the word that best described her history was “nothing”?

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Question 13.9 Why might Kincaid object to wearing the Prince of Wales’s crest?

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Question 13.10 What does Kincaid mean by this line: “A sentence that began ‘That night the ship sailed from Bristol, England’ would end not so good for me”?

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