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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What grade was SInclair in when her father went to Japan?
(a) 4th.
(b) 2nd.
(c) 5th.
(d) 3rd.

2. 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) Scratched her arm.
(b) Cut her foot.
(c) Hit her head.
(d) Sprained her ankle.

3. In Chapter 4, how many nights a week would Howie travel to the resorts to play his guitar?
(a) 7.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

4. After Sinclair and her siblings started wearing dreadlocks, what would Esther put on their hair?
(a) Aloe vera gel and olive oil.
(b) Rosemary oil and aloe vera gel.
(c) Coconut oil.
(d) Peppermint oil and aloe vera gel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was Howard's recording contract in Chapter 8?

2. How long were the visas that the record label could grant Howard and his band?

3. How old was Sinclair in the Prologue?

4. When did high fences go up near the village where Sinclair spent her early childhood to protect the hotels and airport?

5. When did the government raid Pinnacle and take their 500 acres and their money?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Sinclair and her family celebrate Kwanzaa?

2. How were Sinclair and Lij treated when they went to school with dreadlocks for the first time?

3. What was the summer like in 1992?

4. Why did Howard not want his children to visit their grandmother Pauline?

5. What was S.P.I.C.?

6. Why did the children's hair start falling out in Chapter 6, and how was the condition cured?

7. What was Miss Clarke's advice when Sinclair told her about a sixth-grade girl who kept following Sinclair?

8. Where did Sinclair and her family live when they moved to Bogue Heights?

9. Why were a hundred thousand "Rasta bredern" at the airport in Chapter 1?

10. Why did the Sinclairs move in Chapter 11?

(see the answer keys)

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