View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Howard make the children do in Chapter 9 if he caught them ramping?
(a) Yardwork.
(b) Weeding.
(c) Laundry.
(d) Cleaning.

2. How old was Sinclair's father when he first twisted his hair into dreadlocks?
(a) 17.
(b) 20.
(c) 19.
(d) 18.

3. What year did Chapter 1 take place?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1966.

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

5. What type of shoes did Esther give Ummy, a student in her classes?
(a) Nike.
(b) Converse.
(c) Adudas,
(d) Reebok.

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

7. How many Rastas when police tried to evict them from Coral Gardens in 1963?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

8. How did the puppies Regan and Thatcher die?
(a) Car accident.
(b) Poison.
(c) Ate spoiled meat.
(d) Shot by a neighbor.

9. How long was the coastline that the village of White House had?
(a) 1/3 mile.
(b) 1/2 mile.
(c) 3/4 mile.
(d) 1/4 mile.

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

11. How many children did Esther have in the four years they lived at White House?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

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

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

14. In Chapter 9, what type of leaves did SInclair rake and Lij and Ife make into leaf piles?
(a) Dogwood.
(b) Mango.
(c) Ramoon.
(d) Ackee.

15. When was the Rastafari movement created?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Sinclair when Shari was born?

2. How far were SInclair and her family living from the place where she was born in the Prologue?

3. 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?

4. How old was Esther when she became pregnant?

5. How old was Sinclair the first time she disobeyed her father and walked into the sea by herself?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 341 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample