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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 did August and her brother ask Sister Loretta to do with her hair?

2. What did August pray for at the end of Chapter 8?

3. What was found in the dead woman's pocket once the police find her in Chapter 12?

4. How did Sister Loretta, August's father's new girlfriend, dress when August met her for the first time?

5. What did August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela whisper back to their boyfriends when they tried to have sex with them?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were August and her brother forbidden from going out in the neighborhod in the summer of 1977?

2. What is August's first memory of Jerome?

3. What happened to Angela's mother?

4. How is Alana described in Chapter 12?

5. Who were the boyfriends that August's friends had begun seeing in Chapter 12?

6. How does August describe Gigi's mother in Chapter 10?

7. What did Sylvia's father say about August's father in Chapter 11?

8. What did Sister Loretta wear when she met August?

9. How was August affected by her interactions with Sylvia's family?

10. What does "gentrification" mean and how does it apply in the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss the character of Gigi in Another Brooklyn. Where and when did August meet Gigi? What did Gigi want to be when she grew up? How and why did Gigi die?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the motif of water in Another Brooklyn. What does water symbolize in the story? Where does water appear? What mood is evoked by water when it appears in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss the character of Sylvia in Another Brooklyn. When and where did August meet Sylvia? What were Sylvia's ambitions in life? Did she achieve those ambitions? Why or why not?

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