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

2. What sound did Sinclair imagine she made when she saw herself walking behind her father in her mind?
(a) Giggle.
(b) Scream.
(c) None.
(d) Song.

3. Where did Sinclair get her broken tooth fixed?
(a) Willowdene.
(b) Gregory Park.
(c) Greenwich.
(d) Spanish Town.

4. How many buttons would the white girls unbutton on the blouses of their school uniforms at St. James College?
(a) 2 or 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 1 or 2.
(d) 2.

5. When Sinclair was 16, what was the publication where she submitted three of her poems?
(a) Journal of West Indian Literature.
(b) Literary Magazine.
(c) The Carribbean Writer.
(d) Jamaica Observer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book did Sinclair read in Chapter 12 that Mrs. Newnham assigned?

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

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

4. How old was Sinclair when she first went to America?

5. How long did the beatings Howard inflicted on the children go on until they stopped? .

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Sinclair feel after Mrs. Newnham suggested she write down what she was feeling?

2. What were Sinclair's thoughts when her mother packed her things and started to leave?

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

4. Why did Sinclair decide that she would never be her father's perfect Rasta daughter?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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