Wide Sargasso Sea

This flexible-use quiz is designed for reading comprehension assessment and activity needs in classroom, home-schooling and other settings. Questions connect to the text’s plot, characters, and themes — and align with the content and chapter organization in the rest of this study guide. Use quizzes as pre-reading hooks, reading checks, discussion starters, entrance/exit “tickets,” small group activities, writing activities, and lessons on finding evidence and support in a text.

Depth of Knowledge Levels: Questions require respondents to demonstrate ability to: 

1. Recall and Understand Content (e.g., who, what, where, when) 
2. Apply and Analyze Ideas (e.g., how and why)

1. What is the name of the Cosways’ estate? (short answer)

2. Which of the following best describes the Cosway family’s position in Jamaica?

A) The island’s Creole families shun them as newcomers, but the freed slaves embrace them as abolitionists.

B) Both the island’s Creole families and its new settlers shun them as former slaves.

C) Both the island’s freed slaves and its new settlers shun them as impoverished former slave owners.

D) The island’s freed slaves shun them as former slave owners, but the new settlers try to curry favor with them.

3. The comparison of the Cosways’ garden to an overgrown Garden of Eden relates to all except which of the following?