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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Sylvia say about the altar boys at her church as a response to Gigi's secret about the pastor at her church?
(a) The altar boys should not be trusted if you were the only altar girl.
(b) The altar boys were abused.
(c) The altar boys were rude and disrespectful of the elders of the church.
(d) The altar boys only wanted to worship and go home.

2. How does August describe her friend Sylvia when she accidentally ran into her on the train years after leaving Brooklyn?
(a) Sylvia looked so different that August barely recognized her.
(b) Sylvia had not aged at all and had reddish brown hair.
(c) Sylvia had not aged at all and was dressed in expensive clothing.
(d) Sylvia had a child on her lap and looked content.

3. As referenced in Chapter 1, when August was 15, where did her father send her for the summer?
(a) A therapist, Sister Sonja.
(b) A mosque to pray.
(c) August's mother's home in Tennessee.
(d) A boarding school in New York City.

4. What major event happened to August's brother in Chapter 2?
(a) August's brother got severely beaten by their father.
(b) August's brother ran away, but their father found him hiding under a bridge.
(c) August's brother cut his forearm on the broken glass of the window.
(d) August's brother left to live with their mother.

5. After August's father brought home a radio, how did August say she would have responded if asked, "Are you lonely?" (47).
(a) August said that her mother's absence made her so incredibly lonely.
(b) August said that this new radio only reminded her of how lonely her life was.
(c) August revealed that she would answer that she was lonely, but had no way to cure it.
(d) August confessed that she would reply that she was not lonely, because her brother was with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did August visit her father in New York City (5)?

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

3. 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?

4. What was the name of the ice cream truck August and her brother saw through their apartment window?

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

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