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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. As a young girl, why did August roam the streets at the start of Chapter 3?
(a) August ran around the streets with her girlfriends.
(b) August walked the streets for drugs.
(c) August roamed the streets asking for money.
(d) August walked the streets looking for her mother.

3. Toward the end of Chapter 7, what did August want to say to her mother about trusting women?
(a) "Mama, you are stupid for leaving us and forcing me to trust only my friends to listen to me" (75).
(b) "Mama, these girls are beautiful. Why did you lie to me" (78)?
(c) "You were wrong, Mama. Look at us hugging. Look at us laughing. Look how we begin and end each other" (75).
(d) "You were right, Mama. These girls were not to be trusted. I do need to keep them at arms' length" (76).

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was August when she went sexually further with Jerome than just kissing at the end of Chapter 9?

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

3. In Chapter 2, what did August notice about the white people in her apartment building?

4. At the start of the novel, what style of music does the narrator say was "trying to tell our [the girls'] story" (2) despite the fact that it never quite got them?

5. What did August tell her mother at the end of Chapter 10?

(see the answer key)

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