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

2. What was the first Sylvia Plath poem that Sinclair read?
(a) Dark House.
(b) Daddy.
(c) A Life.
(d) Balloons.

3. What was the first book the Old Poet gave Sinclair?
(a) Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(b) Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(c) Poems of Phillis Wheatley.
(d) Poems of William Wordsworth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the name of a Rastaman Howard started meeting with at his weekly reasonings at Tafara Products in Chapter 22?

4. 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?

5. What book did Sinclair choose when she and her parents visited the Old Poet and he told her to choose a book to keep?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How were Sinclair and her siblings allowed to go to Doctor's Cave?

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

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

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

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

10. Who was Aunt Nicey, and how did she treat Howard?

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