Old Story Time

Question 1

Author of Old story Time

Answer 1

Trevor Rhone

Question 2

Birthdate of Trevor Rhone

Answer 2

1940

Question 3

Date of Trevor Rhone’s Death

Answer 3

2009

Question 4

Trevor Rhone’s Theatre

Answer 4

Barn Theatre (Kingston, Jamaica)

Question 5

Birthplace

Answer 5

Bella’s Gate, St. Catherine

Question 6

Highschool

Answer 6

St. Jago Highschool (1952-1957)

Question 7

College

Answer 7

Rose Bruford College, Kent, UK (1960-1963)

Question 8

Plays by Trevor Rhone

Answer 8

Gadget (1968) 
Cinderella Musical (1969)
Smile Orange (1971)
Comic Strip (1973)
Old Story Time (1979)

Question 9

Films by Trevor Rhone

Answer 9

The Harder They Come (1969)
Smile ORange (1974)

Question 10

Setting of Old Story Time

Answer 10

First Half - Unnamed Parish in Rural Kingston

Second Half - Mainly in Kingston Jamaica

Question 11

Characters

Answer 11

Pa Ben
Mama (Miss Aggie/Miss G.)
Pearl
Miss Margaret
Miss Lois
George McFarlane 
Len

Question 12

Pa Ben

Answer 12

• Narrotor and storyteller
• Keeps the peace between Mama and Len
• Keeps the lines of communication open between Mama and Len, and Len and Lois
• He loves Len like a son and treats him like one
• Mama is his best friend
• He loves to drink white rum though he shouldn’t

Question 13

Mama (Miss Aggie/Miss G.)

Answer 13

• Len’s mother
• She’s a market lady
• She’s very invested in her child’s education
• She’s very proud
• She believes that whites and near whites are superior to black people.
• She is very witty

Question 14

Pearl

Answer 14

• Len’s childhood (best friend) friend - wasn’t supposed to hang with her.
• She is constantly pregnant
• By the middle of the play, she has ELEVEN children and is pregnant with another
• She dies in childbirth near the end of the play

Question 15

Miss Margaret

Answer 15

• The white daughter of a minister. Rvrd. Greaves
• She attends Munro College with Len and George
• She shows Len’s love letter to her, from George and enables the plan to humiliate Len
• Mama wants Len to marry her because she represents advancement
• She marries George, they have a child together and that child attends Munroe College

Question 16

Miss Lois

Answer 16

• Len’s dark-skinned wife
• Mama, initially doesn’t accept her based on her skin colour
• She, and her father, take care of Len after the humiliating experience with George and his friends.
• She sends money to George while he attends university
• She is blackmailed by George, twice, because she embezzled money from the bank
• She loves her husband and yearns for his attention

Question 17

George McFarlane

Answer 17

• Len’s schoolmate at Monroe College
• He treated Len awfully and was the mastermind behind Len’s ultimate humiliation
• He was very dunce in school but was offered a place at the bank
• He eventually becomes the manager of the bank and embezzles money and is caught and fired.
• The owner of the fraudulent ABC homes, the company that scams Mama
• He was Margaret’s boyfriend in highschool and, eventually marries her

Question 18

Len

Answer 18

• Mama’s son
• Extremely bright and did really well in school
• Attended Monroe College, got a scholarship to a university in England and travelled the world
• Obtained an excellent job in the banking sector, despite job issues after highschool
• Loves his mother and tries to be patient with her
• Loves his wife. He defies his mother by secretly dating her and marrying her

Question 19

Themes Present in Old Story Time

Answer 19

• Racial and class discrimination
• Religion and obeah
• Education vs. Progress
• Dreams and aspirations
• Love
• Love and family relationships
• Power and authority
• Classism
• Stereotypes