The Hate Race Quizzes

The Hate Race Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Hate Race?
Winston Smith

Cleopatra Clarke

James Baldwin

Maxine Beneba Clarke
2 Who narrates The Hate Race?
Maxine Beneba Clarke

An unnamed first-person narrator

Cleopatra Clarke

An unnamed third-person narrator
3 What form does The Hate Race take?
Epic poem

Book of short stories

Novel

Memoir
4 When was The Hate Race published?
2020

2018

2016

2022
5 In what country is The Hate Race set?
Canada

The United States

New Zealand

Australia
6 What is Clarke doing in the prologue?
Leaving Australia

Returning home after dropping her son at school

Moving to Australia

Giving a lecture in London
7 What happens to Clarke in the prologue?
A woman insults her at a gas station

A stranger shouts racist abuse at her

A man tries to hit her with his car

None of these
8 Where was Clarke born?
Guyana

Australia

Jamaica

Britain
9 What is the "burnished mahogany of my ancestors" that Clarke carries?
An heirloom paperweight

A wooden bowl

Her skin color

A grandfather's walking stick
10 What racist policy does Gough Whitlam's try to dismantle?
Britains Against Immigration

Whites for Australia Policy

Trick question: he strengthens racist policies

The White Australia policy
11 What is Clarke's father's first name?
Porgy

Borgy

Matty

Bordeaux
12 Where was Clarke's father born?
Africa

Jamaica

Guyana

London
13 In what area of London do Clarke's paternal grandparents settle?
Battersea

Hampstead Heath

Tottenham

Brixton
14 Where was Clarke's mother born?
Sudan

Guyana

England

Egypt
15 What area of the world are the West Indies?
Caribbean

Indian Ocean

Southernmost tip of South America

Oceania
16 What is notable about the way Bordy's parents speak?
They never learned English

They speak English in a Jamaican patios

They speak Arawak, the native language of the Caribbean

They speak perfect "BBC English"
17 What is the highest degree Bordy achieves?
Ph.D.

Diploma

Bachelor's

Master's
18 What does the politician Enoch Powell warn against in the late 1960s?
A lack of diversity in public institutions

Immigrants not being set up for success in Britain

Black people displacing white people in the UK

A rising tide of hatred in the UK
19 Why doesn't Bordy include his photograph in his Australian university job application documents?
He is aware that there is a lack of diversity in Australia

It is illegal to ask for photos when people apply for jobs

He has never liked photographs of himself

None of these
20 What is ironic about Bordy's meeting with the Australian professor in London?
The man never shows up

The man is also Black

The man is also not white

He and Bordy went to primary school together
21 Clarke's repeated variations on the phrase, "This is how I tell it, or else what's a story for?" is an example of what literary device?
Motif

Assonance

Simile

Foreshadowing
22 In what year do Clarke's parents move to Australia?
2001

1976

1990

1979
23 What is the name of the hotel Bordy and Cleo stay at upon arrival in Australia?
Man Friday Hotel

Robinson Crusoe Hotel

Golliwog Hotel

Girl Friday Hotel
24 What type of product bears the brand name Coon in the book?
Milk

Cheese

Bread

Cookies
25 What is Bordy's degree in?
Literature

Mathematics

Geography

Philosophy

where does cleopatra fit into the Maxiens experience of racism

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how does her mother impact her identity

Clarke depicts Cleopatra as elegant, supportive, level-headed, and good-humored. When her husband leaves her to live with his mistress, Cleopatra perseveres, making ends meet and eventually changing the locks so Bordy knows he isn't entitled to...

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when in the novel does Maxine get angry

I thinks she first gets angry at school over the racism directed towards her. Really, nothing is done about it. The book mainly follows Maxine in her school life, describing the things she went through from an early age. She started school when...

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