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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did August, Sylvia, and Angela respond to Gigi's rape?
(a) August, Sylvia, and Angela made a plan to run away with Gigi.
(b) August, Sylvia, and Angela promised to find the man and kill him.
(c) August, Sylvia, and Angela insisted that Gigi immediately tell her mother.
(d) August, Sylvia, and Angela told Gigi that she could stay at Sylvia's house to get away from him.

2. As referenced in Chapter 1, when August was 15, where did her father send her for the summer?
(a) A boarding school in New York City.
(b) A mosque to pray.
(c) August's mother's home in Tennessee.
(d) A therapist, Sister Sonja.

3. As an adult returning to New York, where did August and her brother go after their father's funeral?
(a) Their father's grave sight.
(b) A drive to Tennessee to visit family.
(c) Their father's apartment to organize his things.
(d) A diner in New Jersey.

4. What was the name of the ice cream truck August and her brother saw through their apartment window?
(a) Misses Creamery Truck.
(b) Mister Ice Cream.
(c) Mister Softee.
(d) Misses Chocolate.

5. How did August's father die?
(a) Natural causes.
(b) Liver disease.
(c) Lung cancer.
(d) Heart attack.

6. What does the narrator claim is the most tragic thing about life (1)?
(a) The moment.
(b) The loss of a mother.
(c) The end of childhood.
(d) The memory.

7. When did August visit her father in New York City (5)?
(a) August's birthday.
(b) New Year's Eve.
(c) Christmas Day.
(d) Thanksgiving Day.

8. Which girl (August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela) was the most popular, as mentioned in Chapter 5?
(a) August.
(b) Gigi.
(c) Angela.
(d) Sylvia.

9. What did August's father do to the apartment window she and her brother always peered through?
(a) August's father took a knife and cut the top of the window frame.
(b) August's father replaced it with a new window that made it easier for August and her brother to see through.
(c) August's father put a dark sheet over it and told them to stop looking out of it.
(d) August's father broke the window and yelled at August and her brother.

10. In Chapter 1, while meeting with therapist, Sister Sonja, as a teenager for the first time, how did August begin the session?
(a) "I was waiting for my mother..." (15).
(b) "I hope my mother is alive..." (15).
(c) "She will never come back..." (12).
(d) "I merely want to see her..." (16).

11. What trains did August and her family take on their Saturday trips to Coney Island?
(a) A and D.
(b) B and F.
(c) L and F.
(d) L and A.

12. What did August's mother sleep with under her pillow as stated at the start of Chapter 4?
(a) A leaf from her favorite tree.
(b) An old photograph of her brother, Clyde.
(c) A piece of broken glass.
(d) A butcher knife.

13. How does August describe her friend Sylvia when she accidentally ran into her on the train years after leaving Brooklyn?
(a) Sylvia had a child on her lap and looked content.
(b) Sylvia had not aged at all and was dressed in expensive clothing.
(c) Sylvia looked so different that August barely recognized her.
(d) Sylvia had not aged at all and had reddish brown hair.

14. In Chapter 4, who moved into the apartment below August's family?
(a) Crystal.
(b) Jennie.
(c) Emily.
(d) Sarah.

15. What narrative perspective is Another Brooklyn related?
(a) Second person.
(b) First person.
(c) Third person limited.
(d) Third person omniscient.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Gigi when she was raped by the soldier who slept in the stairwell of her building?

2. What was the color of the pullout sofa in August's childhood apartment?

3. Why could Gigi not tell her mother about the rape?

4. At the end of Chapter 5, how did Sylvia respond when August, Gigi, and Angela asked her what she loved?

5. When August asked about the jar in the apartment, what did her father tell her?

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