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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While listening to a church sermon in Chapter 2, what question did August pose to God?
(a) "What does God do with his daughters?" (23).
(b) "Why did God only love the white people?" (23).
(c) "How could God take away my mother?" (22).
(d) "Do you even exist? If so, why are you so unfair?" (21).

2. What was the color of the pullout sofa in August's childhood apartment?
(a) Dark green.
(b) Dark blue.
(c) Light red.
(d) Dark brown.

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

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

5. Where did August's mother's brother, Clyde, go to college? (51).
(a) University of Texas.
(b) Howard University.
(c) University of Tennessee.
(d) Brown University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did August want, do, and/or think, when she first saw Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi as a child in Brooklyn?

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

3. In what condition did August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi find the man who raped Gigi in Chapter 4?

4. Who reminded August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela of the old man who ran a sketchy shoe repair shop?

5. What did the woman who lived below August's apartment look like?

(see the answer key)

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