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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. At the end of the school year when Sinclair was nine, what did she get to ride at the school carnival?
(a) Horse.
(b) Pony.
(c) Elephant.
(d) Mule.

2. When did the government raid Pinnacle and take their 500 acres and their money?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1957.

3. About how many lived at the Pinnacle commune?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 2,500.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word did Howard use to call Sinclair's crying when she lost a tooth when she was nine?

3. How old was Sinclair's grandmother, Pauline, when she became pregnant with Sinclair's father, Howie?

4. In Chapter 5, where did the Sinclairs move?

5. How long after Howard returned from Japan after he lost his recording contract, did he have a purification ceremony?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Howie learn about Rastafar?

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

4. What was different about Grandma Pauline's house from the house where the Sinclairs lived?

5. What was next door to the village where Sinclair and her family lived?

6. Where did Sinclair's family live until she was five?

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

8. How did life change for Sinclair and her siblings after her father lost his recording contract?

9. When did Howie go to the United States, and what did he do there?

10. What happened when Haile Selassie's plane landed in Jamaica?

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