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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 13, what game did Howard and Esther often play?
(a) Mahjongg.
(b) Backgammon.
(c) Checkers.
(d) Rummy.

2. How far did Grandma travel to get Sinclair to take her to the dentist?
(a) 4 hours.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) 5 hours.
(d) 3 hours.

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

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

5. When Sinclair was 16, what was the publication where she submitted three of her poems?
(a) Journal of West Indian Literature.
(b) Jamaica Observer.
(c) Literary Magazine.
(d) The Carribbean Writer.

6. How much land surrounded St. James College?
(a) 1 acre.
(b) 2/3 acre.
(c) 1/2 acre.
(d) 1/3 acre.

7. After Esther returned from starting to leave the family in Chapter 16, how many years had it been since Howard had returned from Japan?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 6 years.

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

9. How old was Ife when she and the other children ate green cherries and were beaten for the act?
(a) 7.
(b) 9.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

10. How old was Howard the year Sinclair started attending St. James College?
(a) 29.
(b) 36.
(c) 34.
(d) 38.

11. What type of sandwich did Sinclair often have for lunch in seventh grade?
(a) Egg salad.
(b) Chickpeas and lettuce.
(c) Lettuce and cheese.
(d) Tomato and cheese.

12. Who noticed when Sinclair left a candle burning and it started a fire?
(a) Shari.
(b) Esther.
(c) Ife.
(d) Lij.

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

14. 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) Whitney Houston.
(b) Celine Dion.
(c) Madonna.
(d) Shania Twain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What poem of Sinclair's did she and the Old Poet work on in June in Chapter 21?

2. On the day Sinclair and her siblings ate green cherries, where was Howard supposed to be playing at a show at a hotel?

3. How old was Sinclair when she first went to America?

4. Who told Sinclair not to walk the grounds of St. James College before school started?

5. What color did Cassandra say her father's eyes were when he was mad?

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