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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Top 40.
(b) The Blues.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Pop.

2. What major event is described at the opening of Chapter 8?
(a) A blackout in New York City.
(b) The 9/11 attacks on New York City.
(c) August's family's return to SweetGrove.
(d) A massive fire that broke out in San Francisco.

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

4. In what condition did August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi find the man who raped Gigi in Chapter 4?
(a) The man was "asleep, alone, and snoring" (59).
(b) The man "...was shooting up heroin and had a look the girls had never seen before" (54).
(c) The man hid underneath the stairs "waited for the girls and jumped out like he wanted to rape all the girls" (58).
(d) The man had "a needle clinched and dripping from his left hand" (59).

5. Who reminded August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela of the old man who ran a sketchy shoe repair shop?
(a) The man who raped Gigi.
(b) Sylvia's father.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Geppetto.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of lessons did Sylvia take that were surprising to August in Chapter 9?

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

3. As an adult returning to New York, where did August and her brother go after their father's funeral?

4. What did August tell Sister Loretta about SweetGrove?

5. As noticed in Chapter 3, what was one of the first things August spotted about Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi at school?

(see the answer key)

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