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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the school Sinclair attended in Chapter 7?

2. After Sinclair and her siblings started wearing dreadlocks, what would Esther put on their hair?

3. What did Sinclair's mother do to supplement the family's income?

4. How long was Howard's recording contract in Chapter 8?

5. When did Sinclair's father make a trip to the United States as a teen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What nickname did Sinclair's father have for her?

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

3. What was the summer like in 1992?

4. What did Howard bring from Japan after his first trip there?

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

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

7. What was S.P.I.C.?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Books can be structured and divided in different ways. How does the structure of a book provide clarity and flow to a narrative? How did Sinclair use chapter titles in How to Say Babylon?

Essay Topic 2

Halle Selassie was the Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. The Rastafari regarded him as divine and revered him. Why was Selassie revered by the Rastafarians?

Essay Topic 3

Babylon was a word the Rastafari used to describe those who were not Rastafarians. How did the term Babylon come to represent oppression and oppressors?

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