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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poet does the author cite when describing remembering and imagining as "the powerful, the uncommon, the awakening of stones" (171) in her Author's Notes at the end of the novel?
(a) William Blake.
(b) William Wordsworth.
(c) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(d) Maya Angelou.

2. What was found in the dead woman's pocket once the police find her in Chapter 12?
(a) A Medicaid card and a $5 food stamp.
(b) A necklace with a gold cross.
(c) A picture of a young man and $10.
(d) A health insurance card and a license.

3. What did August and her brother ask Sister Loretta to do with her hair?
(a) August and her brother asked Sister Loretta to dye her hair blonde.
(b) August and her brother told Sister Loretta to cut her hair short like their mother.
(c) August and her brother asked Sister Loretta to show them her hair.
(d) August and her brother told Sister Loretta to wear her hair down more often.

4. In describing the Ibo people in Chapter 16, August says, "They believed going home to the water was far better than" what?
(a) "Staring into the sun" (167).
(b) "Living their lives enslaved" (167).
(c) "Letting their dead go alone" (167).
(d) "Going home on land" (167).

5. What local girl was sent away when she got pregnant after being beaten by her mother?
(a) Beatrice.
(b) Dora.
(c) Jennie.
(d) Charlsetta.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was August at a cafe when the woman she had lived with for eight months asked why she slept with fisted hands in Chapter 15?

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 5, what did Gigi's mom do for a living?

3. How did August feel about the women her father brought home?

4. In Chapter 9, what did Sister Loretta call the food that August's family ate before she started coming to the apartment?

5. After August's father brought home a radio, how did August say she would have responded if asked, "Are you lonely?" (47).

(see the answer key)

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