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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 restaurant did Sinclair tell her father that her classmate Heather's father owned?
2. When Sinclair started having sessions with the Old Poet, how many poems would she memorize in a week?
3. What color nail polish did the mothers of the American and Canadian students at St. James College usually wear?
4. In Chapter 16, how old was Shari when she was still breastfeeding?
5. How old was Lij when he tried to stop Howard from whipping Sinclair over a pair of sneakers?
Short Essay Questions
1. What advice did Esther give Sinclair when the Old Poet fondled her at an award ceremony?
2. Where did Sinclair send some of her poetry, and what happened after she sent them?
3. How did Sinclair feel when she saw her father watching pornography?
4. Why did Sinclair have to quit modeling?
5. How did Sinclair and her siblings always have a lunch to eat at school?
6. What was Howard's response when Sinclair asked him about a man in the neighborhood who was beating his wife?
7. What happened when Sinclair and her siblings ate green cherries?
8. What were Sinclair's thoughts when her mother packed her things and started to leave?
9. How did Sinclair feel after Mrs. Newnham suggested she write down what she was feeling?
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
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
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?
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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