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

2. What poem of Sinclair's did she and the Old Poet work on in June in Chapter 21?
(a) Silver.
(b) Center of the World.
(c) Confessor.
(d) Cannibal.

3. What book did Sinclair choose when she and her parents visited the Old Poet and he told her to choose a book to keep?
(a) The Count of Monte Cristo.
(b) Crime and Punishment.
(c) The Bhagavad Gita.
(d) Canterbury Tales.

4. How much older than Sinclair was the scholarship student named Cassandra?
(a) 3 months.
(b) A year.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 6 months.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much land surrounded St. James College?

3. What restaurant did Sinclair tell her father that her classmate Heather's father owned?

4. How many buttons would the white girls unbutton on the blouses of their school uniforms at St. James College?

5. Which of her father's albums would Sinclair help make bootleg copies?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Cassandra, and what happened to her?

2. What conversation did Sincalir have with Mrs. Pinnock regarding her hair?

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

4. Why did Sinclair have to quit modeling?

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

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

7. What happened when Howard was beating Sinclair because she told her mother she did not like a pair of sneakers?

8. What advice did Esther give Sinclair when the Old Poet fondled her at an award ceremony?

9. How was Sinclair able to get her broken tooth fixed?

10. Why did Esther and Sinclair go to America in 2003?

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