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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. Where did Reina take the Sinclairs when she visited?

2. What was the name of a seamstress the Sinclair visited in Awful Gully?

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

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

5. What was the first Sylvia Plath poem that Sinclair read?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the house like that the Sinclairs lived in on Fifth Street?

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

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

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

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

8. What advice did Esther give Sinclair when the Old Poet fondled her at an award ceremony?

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

10. What did Shannon tell Sinclair about the altercation Sinclair had with Mrs. Pinnock about henna?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Sinclair’s relationship with her mother changed after a particularly brutal beating by her father. How and why did Sinclair’s relationship with her mother change because of that beating?

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