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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Bob feel about going to Kingston?
(a) Excited.
(b) Upset.
(c) Angry.
(d) Indifferent.

2. Who did Cedella decide to move with in Chapter 4, "Bad Card"?
(a) Captain Marley.
(b) Toddy Livingston.
(c) Peter Tosh.
(d) Omeriah Malcolm.

3. Why did Bob's music start to catch on?
(a) Because it appealed to the rich, upper-class people in Jamaica.
(b) Because it appealed to the newly-independent people of Jamaica.
(c) Because Bob forced everyone he knows to promote his music.
(d) Bob's music did not start to catch on.

4. What entered Bob's eye while he was working as a welder?
(a) A piece of glass.
(b) A hot sliver of metal.
(c) Fire.
(d) A bug.

5. How did Bob react to seeing his father for the first time?
(a) He hits the man.
(b) He faints.
(c) He runs away.
(d) He cries.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Cedella's family feel when Bob returned to Nine Miles with his mother?

2. Who liked to tell everyone he was the leader of the group Bob organized?

3. What did Captain Marley's new wife realize during his conversation with Cedella?

4. Who did Bob push his music on?

5. Who was partially credited with bringing Rastafarianism to the islands?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Cedella meet and marry Captain Marley?

2. How did Bob Marley feel about the African people during the concert for Independence Day in Zimbabwe?

3. Why did Cedella visit Captain Marley in Chapter 5, "Pass It On"?

4. When did Ras Tafari change his name, and what did he change it to?

5. Why did Bob go to the hospital, and what did he tell Cedella while he was there?

6. How did Bob start to promote his records?

7. Why did Captain Marley write Cedella in Chapter 4, "Bad Card"?

8. Who was Omeriah Malcolm, and what did he think about Bob?

9. After returning to Nine Miles where did Cedella decide to move, and why?

10. Why did the Wailers' music start to catch on?

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