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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the end of Chapter 5, how did Sylvia respond when August, Gigi, and Angela asked her what she loved?
(a) Sylvia told the girls, "I have no clue. My parents will decide that" (63).
(b) Sylvia replied, "I will be the most famous actress ever" (62).
(c) Sylvia answered, "I'm not the boss of me. How the hell would I even know" (63).
(d) Sylvia rejoined, "I'm too young to answer that question" (62).

3. As indicated in Chapter 4, what did August say her father had to do, because they had to live without August's mother?
(a) August's father became an "angry and resentful man...no clue what to do" (46).
(b) August's father treated his children "like they were the least important people on the planet" (47).
(c) August's father tried to "be a mother, but it just wasn't the same" (45).
(d) August's father was "as unsure as we were about what step to take next" (46).

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What major event happened to August's brother in Chapter 2?

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

3. Who was portrayed as "starving" at the start of Chapter 6?

4. When August was a child, what statement did she always tell her brother when he asked about their mother?

5. As mentioned in Chapter 1, what do the Hindu people do with the dead?

(see the answer key)

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