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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of a movie a girl watched at St. James College that had an actor named Jared Leto in it?
(a) Almost Home.
(b) Switchback.
(c) My So-Called Life.
(d) Requiem for a Dream.

2. When Sinclair started having sessions with the Old Poet, how many poems would she memorize in a week?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

3. What band would the Sinclairs listen to when Howard was away?
(a) Cranberries.
(b) Radiohead.
(c) Weezer.
(d) Pearl Jam.

4. What was the first book the Old Poet gave Sinclair?
(a) Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(b) Poems of Phillis Wheatley.
(c) Poems of William Wordsworth.
(d) Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

5. Where did Sinclair get her broken tooth fixed?
(a) Willowdene.
(b) Greenwich.
(c) Gregory Park.
(d) Spanish Town.

6. In Chapter 13, on what street did the Sinclairs live?
(a) Eleventh.
(b) Tenth.
(c) Fifth.
(d) Eighth.

7. Why did Cassandra not return to St. James College?
(a) She stole something.
(b) She got pregnant.
(c) She cheated on an exam.
(d) Her family moved.

8. What poet did the Old Poet think Sinclair would read when she tired of Plath?
(a) Jane Cavendish.
(b) Emily Dickinson.
(c) Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
(d) Eliza Haywood.

9. Who told Sinclair not to walk the grounds of St. James College before school started?
(a) Mr. WIlson.
(b) Mr. Roberts.
(c) Mrs. Newnham.
(d) Mrs. Pinnock.

10. During Sinclairs first reading, how much older were the men who also read with her in a packed Kingston auditorium?
(a) 10 years olds.
(b) 30 years older.
(c) About twice her age.
(d) More than 3 times her age.

11. What color uniforms did the maids wear at Rashmi's house?
(a) Black.
(b) Navy.
(c) Blue.
(d) Pink.

12. How long had Howard been back from Japan when Sinclair entered seventh grade?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 2 1/2 years.
(d) 3 1/2 years.

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

14. Including Sinclair, how many scholarship students were in Sinclair's seventh grade class at St. James College?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

15. When Lij and Sinclair took SAT classes, how many days a week were the classes?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Reina from, who visited the Sinclairs?

2. How long did the beatings Howard inflicted on the children go on until they stopped? .

3. What did Sinclair's toes become covered with when the imagined a scene where she followed her father's footsteps?

4. How far of a drive did most of Sinclair's classmates have to attend St. James College?

5. What type of tree did Shannon climb in the school yard?

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