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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Gigi audition for at the start of Chapter 10?
(a) A dance school in Ithaca.
(b) A performing arts school in Manhattan.
(c) A school for maths and sciences in the Bronx.
(d) A performing arts school in Yonkers.

2. What did Angela say after a dead woman was found in Brooklyn during the winter?
(a) "I don't know where my mother is" (129).
(b) "My mother is the dead woman" (130).
(c) "I wonder if the dead woman is my other" (129).
(d) "My father murdered my mother" (129).

3. What did August and her brother believe happened to their father's fingers well into their teens?
(a) The war took their father's fingers away.
(b) A dog had eaten their father's fingers.
(c) Their mother bit their father's fingers off.
(d) Their father lost his fingers in a fight.

4. According to the narrator in Chapter 5, what did Gigi's mom do for a living?
(a) Gigi's mom was a banker.
(b) Gigi's mom had no job and was on employment.
(c) Gigi's mom was a dancer.
(d) Gigi's mom was a teacher.

5. What passion did August's brother discover when he is eight years old?
(a) Writing.
(b) English literature.
(c) Physics.
(d) Math.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Sylvia convince her father to let August, Angela, and Gigi stay over at Sylvia's house?

2. At the start of Chapter 5, what does August say Gigi's mother said about Gigi?

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

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

5. Why would August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela possibly get sent "Down South?"

(see the answer key)

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