Small Island- Hopes, dreams and expectations

In his description of England to Hortense and Celia, Gilbert repeatedly uses the prefix...

"every" ("every", "everywhere", "everybody", "everyone")

Gilbert describes the leaves in England as...

"golden"... "blanket of gold"

Gilbert believed that "opportunity ripened in England as abundant...

... as fruit on Jamaican trees"

Who does Hortense suggest could have previously lived at Earl Court?

"lawyer"/"doctor"/"friend of a friend of the King"

Gilbert is a "Jamaican...

...dreamer"

What does Gilbert say about his dream of studying law?

"hopeless"

When applying to become a teacher, Hortense is told...

..."you can't teach in this country"

Hortense's expectation of her career in England?

"I thought I would come here and teach"

Elwood to Gilbert upon his return: "you no study...

...the law yet man?"

Gilbert tries to apply to study law and "tongues tutted that this common...

...aircraftman should have ideas so high above his station"

Instead of law, the Colonial Office offers to train Gilbert in...

..."bread-baking"

"I saw before me...

...a palace"

"Finsbury Park was...

...the precise location" of the new house

"ceilings so high...

...my voice echoed in them"

"a garden stretched far enough....

...the end to be caught in a mist"