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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. What religion did Rita convert to?

2. How did Bob's mother feel about his desire to return to the ghetto and the music industry?

3. What did Bob decide to do before leaving Jamaica?

4. How did Bob's godmother offend the family?

5. Where did Cedella go to see Marley play?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Marley's illness progress until his death?

2. What did Marley dream of on September 10, 1964, and what did this seem to be related to?

3. What happened at the Wailers' show on December 25, 1964?

4. What happened during the Wailers' tour in America to promote "Catch a Fire"?

5. What occurred during the Third Annual Independence Parade in Kingston?

6. How did Rita lead Bob to convert to Rastafarianism?

7. How did Bob's godmother offend the family during Omeriah's wake, and what did this indicate?

8. What happened during Marley's meeting with Crown Prince Asfa Wossen?

9. After Marley returned to Jamaica, how did the Wailers afford their recordings?

10. What happened to Leslie Kong when he tried to re- release the Wailers' old tracks for pure profit?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the third person point-of-view enhance and inhibit the story? How would the biography be different if a different point of view were used?

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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