B. Wordsworth GRADE A Q&A
"B. Wordsworth" is set in - (correct answer)Trinidad
In the story, B. Wordsworth uses standard English. What does this indicate about him? -
(correct answer)He may be from a higher social class or have been educated in British
Schools
Why does B. Wordsworth ask the boy never to return? - (correct answer)Does not want
the boy to witness his death
In "B. Wordsworth," the boy's tears show that he - (correct answer)He learned to be a
poet like Woodsworth
V. S Naipaul - (correct answer)Born in Trinidad in the Caribbean
b. Wordsworths request is different from those of others who come calling in the
narrators neighborhood because it - (correct answer)doesn't involve a handout
b. Wordsworth explains his overgrown yard by - (correct answer)telling a love story
the narrators mother beats him because - (correct answer)he's spent a day with b
Wordsworth
b Wordsworth makes his living by - (correct answer)singing calypsos in the calypso
season
the boys language in the story can best be described as - (correct answer)uneducated
b Wordsworth tells the boy that poets are people who - (correct answer)can cry for
everything and anything
, when a policeman asks b Wordsworth what he is doing here, b wordsworths response
suggests that he is - (correct answer)philosophical
at the end of his life, b Wordsworth says the story he told the narrator about the boy and
girl poets - (correct answer)was untrue
the narrators language as an adult suggests that he - (correct answer)was influenced by
b wordsworth
author - (correct answer)V.S. Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul - (correct answer)carribean novelist, born in trinidad
how many beggars called everyday at the hospital houses in Miguel street? - (correct
answer)3
10:00 - (correct answer)an indian came in a dhoti & white jacket, theyd give him rice
12:00 - (correct answer)old woman smoking a pipe, she'd get a cent
2:00 - (correct answer)blind men led by a boy called for his penny
"what do you want" - (correct answer)Your bees
what bees? - (correct answer)uninvited bees in the narrator's 4 gru-gru palm trees
what did the strange man do - (correct answer)he was a poet "the greatest in the world"
"B. Wordsworth" is set in - (correct answer)Trinidad
In the story, B. Wordsworth uses standard English. What does this indicate about him? -
(correct answer)He may be from a higher social class or have been educated in British
Schools
Why does B. Wordsworth ask the boy never to return? - (correct answer)Does not want
the boy to witness his death
In "B. Wordsworth," the boy's tears show that he - (correct answer)He learned to be a
poet like Woodsworth
V. S Naipaul - (correct answer)Born in Trinidad in the Caribbean
b. Wordsworths request is different from those of others who come calling in the
narrators neighborhood because it - (correct answer)doesn't involve a handout
b. Wordsworth explains his overgrown yard by - (correct answer)telling a love story
the narrators mother beats him because - (correct answer)he's spent a day with b
Wordsworth
b Wordsworth makes his living by - (correct answer)singing calypsos in the calypso
season
the boys language in the story can best be described as - (correct answer)uneducated
b Wordsworth tells the boy that poets are people who - (correct answer)can cry for
everything and anything
, when a policeman asks b Wordsworth what he is doing here, b wordsworths response
suggests that he is - (correct answer)philosophical
at the end of his life, b Wordsworth says the story he told the narrator about the boy and
girl poets - (correct answer)was untrue
the narrators language as an adult suggests that he - (correct answer)was influenced by
b wordsworth
author - (correct answer)V.S. Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul - (correct answer)carribean novelist, born in trinidad
how many beggars called everyday at the hospital houses in Miguel street? - (correct
answer)3
10:00 - (correct answer)an indian came in a dhoti & white jacket, theyd give him rice
12:00 - (correct answer)old woman smoking a pipe, she'd get a cent
2:00 - (correct answer)blind men led by a boy called for his penny
"what do you want" - (correct answer)Your bees
what bees? - (correct answer)uninvited bees in the narrator's 4 gru-gru palm trees
what did the strange man do - (correct answer)he was a poet "the greatest in the world"
