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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 book did Sinclair read in Chapter 12 that Mrs. Newnham assigned?
3. What type of car did the Old Poet drive?
4. How many buttons would the white girls unbutton on the blouses of their school uniforms at St. James College?
5. Where was the fifth house that the Sinclairs moved to in five years?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Sinclair spend her time after finishing high school?
2. What did Shannon tell Sinclair about the altercation Sinclair had with Mrs. Pinnock about henna?
3. How did Sinclair's mother and grandmother persuade Howard to allow Sinclair to wear pants for a class trip to Havana?
4. What were Sinclair's thoughts when her mother packed her things and started to leave?
5. Why did Sinclair decide that she would never be her father's perfect Rasta daughter?
6. How did Sinclair and her siblings always have a lunch to eat at school?
7. Who were some of Sinclair's classmates when she started seventh grade at St. James College?
8. How was Sinclair able to get her broken tooth fixed?
9. What advice did Esther give Sinclair when the Old Poet fondled her at an award ceremony?
10. How did Howard react when Sinclair and Esther told him about the henna incident?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sinclair began to notice differences in what her father said about behavior and what he did himself. How and why did Sinclair begin to believe that her father was a liar and a hypocrite?
Essay Topic 2
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 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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