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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. 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.

2. How old was Sinclair when she was in her final year at St. James College?
(a) 16.
(b) 15.
(c) 18.
(d) 17.

3. What type of accent did the Old Poet have who Sinclair visited in Chapter 19?
(a) Jamaican.
(b) West Indies.
(c) Trinidad.
(d) Barbadian.

4. How old was Sinclair when she first went to America?
(a) 16.
(b) 18.
(c) 17.
(d) 15.

5. What was the name of a seamstress the Sinclair visited in Awful Gully?
(a) Primrose.
(b) Louisa.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Daisy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Including Sinclair, how many scholarship students were in Sinclair's seventh grade class at St. James College?

2. How many students were in Sinclair's seventh grade class at St. James College?

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

4. When Sinclair started having sessions with the Old Poet, how many poems would she memorize in a week?

5. How long had Howard been back from Japan when Sinclair entered seventh grade?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Sinclair feel when she saw her father watching pornography?

2. What was the house like that the Sinclairs lived in on Fifth Street?

3. How did Sinclair's mother and grandmother persuade Howard to allow Sinclair to wear pants for a class trip to Havana?

4. What happened when Sinclair and her siblings ate green cherries?

5. What was Howard's response when Sinclair asked him about a man in the neighborhood who was beating his wife?

6. Why did Sinclair have to quit modeling?

7. How did Sinclair and her siblings always have a lunch to eat at school?

8. How did Howard react when Sinclair and Esther told him about the henna incident?

9. How did Sinclair spend her time after finishing high school?

10. Where did Sinclair send some of her poetry, and what happened after she sent them?

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