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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Sinclair when she could no longer wear pants or shorts and had to wear dresses or skirts?
(a) 9.
(b) 8.
(c) 11.
(d) 10.

2. How long were the visas that the record label could grant Howard and his band?
(a) 5 months.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 7 months.

3. What was the first car that Howard bought?
(a) Honda.
(b) Kia.
(c) Toyota.
(d) Isuzu.

4. Where did Auntie Audrey and Sinclair's cousin Jason move?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Miami.
(c) Denver.
(d) New Orleans.

5. What book did Esther give Sinclair after Sinclair deliberately stepped on a nail?
(a) A Child's Book of Poems.
(b) The Oxford Illustrated Book of Children's Poems.
(c) The Random House Book of Poetry for Children.
(d) Poems of a Child's World.

6. While Howard was in Japan, what were Sinclair and her siblings infected with?
(a) Scalp warts.
(b) Shingles.
(c) Barber disease.
(d) Folliculitis.

7. When did Sinclair's parents meet?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1981.

8. How far were SInclair and her family living from the place where she was born in the Prologue?
(a) 5 miles.
(b) 20 miles.
(c) 12 miles.
(d) 10 miles.

9. How old was Sinclair the first time she disobeyed her father and walked into the sea by herself?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

10. How old was Haile Selassie when he visited Jamaica in 1966?
(a) 74.
(b) 59.
(c) 68.
(d) 81.

11. When did Sinclair's father make a trip to the United States as a teen?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1979.

12. How was Sinclair's mother hurt when she ran to save Sinclair when went into the water for the first time by herself and nearly drowned?
(a) Cut her foot.
(b) Hit her head.
(c) Scratched her arm.
(d) Sprained her ankle.

13. How long after Howie and Esther met did they move into a small commune with other Rastas?
(a) 8 months.
(b) 3 months.
(c) A year.
(d) 2 years.

14. What was the name of a boy who delivered a note to Sinclair from a girl who wrote that she did not want to be Sinclair's friend?
(a) Anthony.
(b) David.
(c) Lorenzo.
(d) William.

15. How long after Howard returned from Japan after he lost his recording contract, did he have a purification ceremony?
(a) 5 weeks.
(b) 8 weeks.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 2 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many rooms did the Sinclairs rent in Chapter 5?

2. What was the name of the girl Sinclair befriended when she was in fifth grade?

3. How many Rastas when police tried to evict them from Coral Gardens in 1963?

4. How old was Sinclair in the Prologue?

5. How long had Sinclair's father been gone to Japan when she and her siblings went to visit their grandmother Pauline?

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