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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Cedella quickly fall in love with?

2. What was the name of the influential music producer that Bob met in Chapter 6, "Small Axe"?

3. Where did Captain Marley take Bob upon Bob's arrival in Kingston in Chapter 4, "Bad Card"?

4. What did Bob receive for cutting his first recording?

5. What did the band's competitors have that the Wailers began to get jealous of in Chapter 8, "People Get Ready"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Cedella go to the courthouse, what happened there and how did Bob respond?

2. How did Bob and Bunny react when radios become popular in their neighborhood?

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

4. What role did sex play in Bob's life in Kingston?

5. What happened when Bob arrived in Kingston?

6. How did Cedella meet and marry Captain Marley?

7. What was the connection between Haile Selassie and Rastafarianism?

8. Who was Marcus Garvey, and why was he famous?

9. What circumstances led to Cedella moving away from Jamaica, and where did she move to?

10. Describe Bob's childhood as seen in Chapter 3, "Misty Morning".

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which people are present in Marley's biography as the protagonist and the antagonist? Why are these people labeled in this way?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the main themes in this biography and detail its recurrences throughout the book. What does it add to Marley's biography? How does it affect the different individuals in his life?

Essay Topic 3

How did the people Marley knows affect his life? How would his life have be different if he had never met some of these people?

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