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

2. What online encyclopedia came on the first computer the Sinclairs owned?

3. Where was Reina from, who visited the Sinclairs?

4. What was the name of a movie a girl watched at St. James College that had an actor named Jared Leto in it?

5. In Chapter 13, what game did Howard and Esther often play?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did Sinclair have to quit modeling?

4. How did Sinclair and her siblings always have a lunch to eat at school?

5. Why did Sinclair stay with her grandmother after meeting the Old Poet?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

An analogy is the comparison of an unfamiliar object or idea to a familiar one in an attempt to explain the unfamiliar or to help readers understand people, events, or concepts. What are some analogies Sinclair used in How to Say Babylon? How do these analogies help readers comprehend people, events or concepts?

Essay Topic 2

Setting is the place where a narrative takes place. Where did How to Say Babylon take place? How did Sinclair feel about the place and why?

Essay Topic 3

When Sinclair was young, she worshipped her father. How and why did Sinclair’s relationship with her father change as she grew up?

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