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Anita and Me - Understanding the Text
See if you can get all ten questions correct in this enjoyable GCSE English Literature quiz on Anita and Me by Meera Syal. Understanding a text is necessary before you are able to analyse and write about it. Comprehension seems as if it might be a fairly basic task, but is not as easy as it sounds. If texts could be reduced to a plot structure and a simple message, then authors would not need to expend so much energy and so many words to express their ideas!
Authors use a variety of methods to convey meaning. Sometimes authors state the meaning unambiguously, but it is more typical for an author to communicate indirectly through other aspects of fiction, such as character, setting, plot, theme and dialogue. By analysing each of these elements, you will increase your understanding of the text. It is usually best if you find time to re-read the text.
1.
Why is Meena's father angry with her at the beginning of the novel?
She has stolen sweets from Mr Ormerod and lied about it
She has stolen money from her mother and lied about it
She has stolen money from Mr Ormerod and lied about it
She has stolen sweets from Mr Ormerod and blamed it on her cousins
She has stolen money from her mother and used this to buy sweets from Mr Ormerod. She told her parents that the shopkeeper gave her the sweets for free
2.
Meena's mother works...
In a factory
As a nurse
As an actor
As a teacher
Meena's mother, unlike many of the inhabitants of Tollington, is university-educated
3.
Which of the following best describes Meena's attitude towards Anita at the beginning of the novel?
Meena is afraid of Anita
Meena dislikes Anita
Meena condescends to Anita
Meena looks up to Anita
Meena wishes to become more like Anita and to be accepted by her. Anita's friendship serves in some ways as a seal of approval on the younger girl
4.
What is the primary motivation for Nanima's visit?
The family's greatest wish is for Meena to learn Punjabi
Meena's mother is overwhelmed by parenting responsibilities
After Meena breaks her leg, the family require additional help around the house
Nanima's greatest wish has always been to visit England
From Meena's perspective, her baby brother Sunil is too clingy. In a moment of despair, her mother expresses her feelings of isolation as she tries to bring up two children so far away from her own family. Nanima's arrival restores domestic order
5.
What does Meena lose the night Sunil is born?
A small statue of Ganesha
Her mother's shoes
Her best salwar kameez
Her mother's diamond necklace
Mr Harinder Singh finds and returns the diamond necklace, which fell near his statue of Ganesha, later in the novel
6.
Anita's family is troubled. Which of the following is NOT a sign of her difficult home life?
The bruises on Tracey's thighs
Anita's dad's army service
Deirdre's behaviour as she sneaks away from the village
Anita's freedom to wander around the village unsupervised
Anita's stealing from Meena and her lies are taken as evidence that she is a bad influence on the younger girl. She often seems older than her age, but at other times it becomes obvious to Meena that she is a young girl deprived of parental love and care
7.
Who lives in the "Big House" in Tollington?
Mr and Mrs Pembridge
Uncle Alan
Mireille and Harinder
A witch
The "Big House" is described in the first chapter to be "as gloomy and roomy as a set from a Hammer horror film". At the end of the novel, when Meena knocks on the door for help, she discovers the mysterious inhabitants to be the lovely, reclusive couple, Mireille and Harinder
8.
What provokes Meena's disastrous ride on Sherrie's horse?
She has just learned that Anita's boyfriend is Sam
She has just learned that Sam and Anita were responsible for racist violence in the village
She wants to make something happen
All of the above
Meena is motivated by jealousy, anger, disgust, shock and grief, as well as her desire for something, anything, to happen in her life
9.
Why is Tollington's village school demolished?
To make space for the motorway being built through the village
The village no longer has enough children to fill the school
The village's population of school children has grown so drastically that a bigger school is needed
To make space for dozens of new houses
The new motorway is a sign that the village is going through an irreversible change which is likely to result in a loss of its identity
10.
Why is Meena required to give evidence to the police?
She must corroborate Tracey's report that Sam or Anita pushed her into the quarry pond
She is the only impartial witness to the events leading to Tracey's fall into the quarry pond
She must clear her name after being accused of pushing Tracey into the quarry pond
She is the only witness to Anita pushing Tracey into the pond and must provide her friend with an alibi
Anita's evidence clears Sam and Anita from Tracey's accusations. The novel begins with Meena's recollection of being forced to admit to having lied to her father and ends with her giving a completely unembroidered, truthful account of Tracey's accident to the police
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