Lesson 4.2.2.8

4.2.2.8 Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo Quiz: AQA English Literature A, Unit 2

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The 20 questions

  1. In what year was Bernardine Evaristo's Mr Loverman published?

    • 2013
    • 1997
    • 2001
    • 1975

  2. Who is the central character of Mr Loverman?

    • Morris Gilbert
    • Carmel
    • Dr Lovejoy
    • Barrington Walker

  3. Where is Barrington Walker's background in the novel?

    • Barbados
    • Jamaica
    • Trinidad
    • Antigua

  4. Which other character is Barrington's lover?

    • Jerome
    • Morris
    • Maxine
    • Carmel

  5. Who is Barrington's wife?

    • Morris
    • Coral
    • Maxine
    • Carmel

  6. What is the central theme of Mr Loverman?

    • Medieval chivalry, including the codes of knights, the courts of love and the joust
    • Secret identity and the cost of concealment
    • Naval warfare and tactics, including the planning of fleet movements and sea battles
    • Victorian commerce, including the trade of goods between the factories and the ports

  7. Which Option B theme does Mr Loverman address through an older Caribbean man in London?

    • Personal and social identity
    • Ancient Roman law, including the codes of property, contract and the rights of citizens
    • Naval history, including the rise of the Royal Navy and its victories over rival fleets
    • Colonial trade in tea, including the plantations, the ships and the markets of London

  8. Which historical event shapes the novel's Caribbean migrant context?

    • The Industrial Revolution in Lancashire
    • Post-war migration from the Caribbean to Britain
    • The Battle of Hastings
    • The Crimean War

  9. Which feature of Evaristo's writing is known for its style?

    • Experimental and fluid prose
    • Documentary statistics, in which the author records the numbers and tables of each survey
    • Strict legal form, in which each clause is numbered and set out in formal language
    • Strict sonnet form, in which each poem has fourteen lines and a set rhyme scheme

  10. Which term describes the layering of voices in Evaristo's prose?

    • Stanza
    • Polyphony
    • Ode
    • Monody

  11. Which concept describes the tension between public respectability and private desire?

    • Church versus state, in which the bishops and the government dispute the rights of the crown
    • Respectability versus desire
    • Trade versus empire, in which merchants and colonial officials compete for control of markets
    • Land versus sea, in which farmers and sailors compete for the resources of the coast

  12. Evaluate: how does the novel's depiction of an older man challenge expectations?

    • It shows an older man with no inner life, a figure who exists only as a background presence
    • It shows an older Caribbean man with a complex inner life and desires
    • It shows an older man who is always a villain, whose every action serves a sinister plan
    • It removes the older generation from the story, so that the novel focuses only on youth

  13. Which literary term describes a text's exploration of hidden identity?

    • Closeted narrative
    • Pastoral idyll, a poem that celebrates the peace and beauty of the countryside life
    • Heroic couplet, a pair of rhymed lines in iambic pentameter that closes a sense unit
    • Epic simile, a long comparison that stretches across several lines of formal verse

  14. Which concept links Barrington's story to wider post-war British society?

    • Feudal land tenure, in which the peasants held their land from lords in exchange for service
    • Migration and the making of multicultural Britain
    • Medieval guilds, in which craftsmen were organised into associations that regulated trade
    • Naval supremacy, in which the Royal Navy dominated the seas and the world's trade routes

  15. Which term describes a novel's use of an older narrator reflecting on life choices?

    • Chorus
    • Retrospective narration
    • Epistolary form
    • Stream of consciousness

  16. Why might Mr Loverman be read as part of a shared-context study of Modern times?

    • It is set in the Napoleonic period, during the wars against France at the start of the century
    • It focuses on a single naval battle, which is described in detail over several chapters
    • It addresses post-war identity, migration and social change
    • It addresses only ancient history, with no reference to the modern world at all

  17. Which broader question does the novel invite a reader to consider?

    • Which country had the strongest navy in the century, and how did it finance its fleet
    • How society shapes which identities can be lived openly
    • Which bank lent the most money to the colonial governments and at what rate of interest
    • How many ships sailed to the Caribbean in each year of the sugar trade in the period

  18. Which statement best describes the novel's treatment of family and community?

    • It presents the family as entirely without tension, living together in calm agreement
    • It explores the tensions between family loyalty and personal truth
    • It removes the community from the narrative, so that only the family is seen at all
    • It shows the family as wholly unified, with no disagreements between any of its members

  19. In what year did Bernardine Evaristo share the Booker Prize?

    • 2013
    • 2001
    • 2019
    • 1985

  20. Which Evaristo novel shared the 2019 Booker Prize?

    • Lara
    • Mr Loverman
    • Girl, Woman, Other
    • The Emperor's Babe

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