The Jumbies

The Jumbies

• Tracey Baptiste

• Alex Gino

• Christine Day

• Sandra Dallas

What type of jumbie was the second one that Bouki and Malik ran into?

• la diabless

• a soucouyant

• a douen

• a lagahoo

What does Severine look like in her jumbie form?

• a beautiful woman dressed in green

• a mermaid with long braided hair

• a woman with one hoofed foot

• a tangle of wood and vines, crawling with insects

What kept the lagahoo from capturing Corinne?

• Pierre fought it off

• Bouki and Malik created a distraction

• Corinne used the stone pendant as protection

• Its chains became tangled in the branches of a tamarind tree

Based on how the story ended, how do you think life on the island will change now that Severine is gone?

• The jumbies and humans will live together peacefully and learn to share the land now that the jumbies are no longer under Severine’s spell

• The jumbies will eventually reunite and plot to take down Corrine and the humans once again

• The jumbies will probably leave the island and look to start a new life elsewhere

At the beginning of the play, how do jumbies view humans?

• As ungrateful and destructive creatures

• As friendly allies

• As gods

At the beginning of the play, how do humans view the jumbies?

• As cool and colorful friends

• As friendly and magical creatures

• As strange and dangerous monsters

Why does Severine want to turn all the humans into jumbies? (Choose THREE correct answers)

• She wants to exact revenge on Pierre for her sister’s death

• She wants to be more powerful and have the most powerful family on the island

• She wants them all to live peacefully together

• She wants the time of humans to be over and for jumbies to take back the island

In Scene 7, the witch says, “Their kind, your kind. What’s the difference?” She means that the jumbies and the humans...

• are always going to be fighting

• are identical in every way

• are equal even though they are different

• are both evil

What are 2 purposes of the prologue PICK 2

• to show that the jumbies are evil

• to explain the conflict between the jumbies and the humans

• to foreshadow Corinne’s connection to the jumbies

• to show that Severine is a strong leader

• Both B & C