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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. How much was tuition a term at St. James College?

3. In Chapter 4, how many nights a week would Howie travel to the resorts to play his guitar?

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

5. When did Sinclair and her siblings sing with their father on stage for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Miss Clarke's advice when Sinclair told her about a sixth-grade girl who kept following Sinclair?

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

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

4. How did Howie learn about Rastafar?

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

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

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

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

9. What was the summer like in 1992?

10. What was Pinnacle, and what happened to the commune?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mood is an element that evokes feelings in readers through the use of descriptive language. Mood is the overall feeling that readers have when reading a narrative. What is the overall mood of How to Say Babylon?

Essay Topic 2

Howard was drawn to Rastafari beliefs. Esther followed him and became Rastafari as well. What motivated Howard and Esther to become Rastafari?

Essay Topic 3

The Old Poet made inappropriate advances to Sinclair. How and why did Esther react as she did when Sinclair told her what happened?

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