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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book did Sinclair choose when she and her parents visited the Old Poet and he told her to choose a book to keep?
(a) Crime and Punishment.
(b) The Bhagavad Gita.
(c) Canterbury Tales.
(d) The Count of Monte Cristo.

2. Where did Sinclair go on a trip with her class that her grandmother helped pay for?
(a) Dominican Republic.
(b) Cuba.
(c) California.
(d) Florida.

3. What color belt did a Canadian friend give Howard?
(a) Black.
(b) Green.
(c) Red.
(d) Blue.

4. How many buttons would the white girls unbutton on the blouses of their school uniforms at St. James College?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 2 or 3.
(d) 1 or 2.

5. On the day Sinclair and her siblings ate green cherries, where was Howard supposed to be playing at a show at a hotel?
(a) Cousins Cove.
(b) Orange Bay.
(c) West End.
(d) Negril.

6. What color belt did Howard use to beat his children?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) Brown.
(d) Green.

7. What was the first Sylvia Plath poem that Sinclair read?
(a) Daddy.
(b) Balloons.
(c) A Life.
(d) Dark House.

8. When Sinclair and her sisters were secured in Bickersteth after Sinclair quit studying with the Old Poet, what would the car next door blast every evening?
(a) Shania Twain.
(b) Whitney Houston.
(c) Celine Dion.
(d) Madonna.

9. How far of a drive did most of Sinclair's classmates have to attend St. James College?
(a) 5 minutes.
(b) About 15 minutes.
(c) Less than 10 minutes.
(d) 20 minutes.

10. What poem of Sinclair's did she and the Old Poet work on in June in Chapter 21?
(a) Confessor.
(b) Cannibal.
(c) Silver.
(d) Center of the World.

11. What teacher suggested that Sinclair start writing down her thoughts in Chapter 17?
(a) Mrs. Williams.
(b) Mrs. Newnham.
(c) Mrs. Pinnock.
(d) Mrs. Lawrence.

12. What did Sinclair's toes become covered with when the imagined a scene where she followed her father's footsteps?
(a) Paint.
(b) Blood.
(c) Water.
(d) Mud.

13. How long was Cassandra missing from school before Sinclair noticed?
(a) A month.
(b) 8 days.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 5 days.

14. Where was the second rented house the Sinclairs lived in since Bogue located?
(a) Twentieth Street.
(b) Eighteenth Street.
(c) First Street.
(d) Fifth Street.

15. What color were the roof tiles on the Old Poet's house that Sinclair visited?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) Pink.
(d) Green.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Reina take the Sinclairs when she visited?

2. In Chapter 13, on what street did the Sinclairs live?

3. What was the name of a movie a girl watched at St. James College that had an actor named Jared Leto in it?

4. What was the first book the Old Poet gave Sinclair?

5. What was the name of a Rastaman Howard started meeting with at his weekly reasonings at Tafara Products in Chapter 22?

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