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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Cedella's first child?
(a) Peter Bunny.
(b) Bobby Ray.
(c) Robert Nesta.
(d) Pearl.

2. What was Cedella's nickname?
(a) Ciddy.
(b) Delly.
(c) Ceddy.
(d) Dilly.

3. Where did Cedella decide to move in Chapter 4, "Bad Card"?
(a) New York.
(b) Nine Miles.
(c) Kingston.
(d) Wilmington.

4. Why did Bob tell his mother not to worry about his father's remarriage?
(a) Captain Marley was going to die soon anyway.
(b) They did not need Captain Marley anyway.
(c) Karma would repay Captain Marley.
(d) Bob did not tell his mother not to worry.

5. When the Wailers lost a contest, what happened to their popularity when Bob decided to beat up the winners?
(a) It increased.
(b) It decreased.
(c) The Wailers did not lose a contest.
(d) Bob would never beat up the winners!

6. Who was partially credited with bringing Rastafarianism to the islands?
(a) Asfa Wossen.
(b) Peter Tosh.
(c) Bob Marley.
(d) Marcus Garvey.

7. What was the name of the influential music producer that Bob met in Chapter 6, "Small Axe"?
(a) Chris Blackwell.
(b) Leslie Kong.
(c) Peter Tosh.
(d) Coxsone Dodd.

8. What was the name of the group that Bob organized in Chapter 7, "Who Feels It, Knows It"?
(a) The Temptations.
(b) The Doors.
(c) The Wailers.
(d) The Beatles.

9. How old was Bob in Chapter 6, "Small Axe"?
(a) Thirty years old.
(b) Eighteen years old.
(c) Fourteen years old.
(d) Eight years old.

10. What did Bob think about his new neighborhood in Chapter 6 "Small Axe"?
(a) He thought it suited him perfectly.
(b) He liked it much better than his old neighborhood.
(c) He got into fights every day because he was poorer than his neighbors.
(d) He found it monotonous and boring.

11. Where did Cedella decide to move when she discovered she was pregnant for a second time?
(a) Kingston, Jamaica.
(b) Wilmington, Delaware.
(c) Nine Miles, Jamaica.
(d) Brooklyn, New York.

12. Who started to promote Bob's records in Chapter 7, "Who Feels It, Knows It"?
(a) Bunny.
(b) Bob.
(c) Peter.
(d) Coxsone.

13. According to one of the founding tenants of Rastafarianism, who was a prophet for the black people?
(a) Asfa Wossen.
(b) Peter Tosh.
(c) Bob Marley.
(d) Haile Selassie.

14. What did Marley witness that shattered his illusions of grandeur with the African people?
(a) The people fighting amongst themselves.
(b) African police beating their own people.
(c) Nothing shatters his illusions of grandeur with the African people.
(d) Their emaciated forms.

15. How old was Cedella Marley when she gave birth to her first child?
(a) Thirteen years old.
(b) Twenty-one years old.
(c) Nineteen years old.
(d) Twenty-five years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. What became popular in Bob's neighborhood in Chapter 6, "Small Axe"?

2. In Chapter 5, "Pass It On", where did Cedella head on Saturday?

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

4. How many Rastas surrounded Selassie's plane when he visited Jamaica in 1966?

5. What had Bob already began in regards to a career in Chapter 6, "Small Axe"?

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