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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the middle of Chapter 7, what did Gigi share about the pastor at her church?
(a) Gigi confessed that the pastor came up behind her and rubbed against her inappropriately.
(b) Gigi shared that the pastor was having an affair with her mother.
(c) Gigi declared that the pastor was stealing money from the congregation.
(d) Gigi admitted that the pastor took her into a back room and raped her.

2. What book did August's father read after Sister Loretta arrived?
(a) The Old Man and the Sea.
(b) The Book of Mormon.
(c) The Qur'an.
(d) The Bible.

3. Where did August look for Jennie's children faces at the start of Chapter 12?
(a) The faces of strangers.
(b) The hallways of her apartment building.
(c) The streets of Brooklyn.
(d) The outside of Jennie's apartment.

4. When Sylvia's father told August she could not come over anymore, how did August feel?
(a) August felt like a ghetto girl.
(b) August felt relieved.
(c) August felt stupid and unambitious.
(d) August felt like Sylvia was conceited.

5. What happened with the relationship between August and a female roommate turned lover?
(a) August's lover cheated on her.
(b) August left her.
(c) August cheated on her lover.
(d) The lover left August.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did August and her brother feed the neighboring children in her apartment building at the end of Chapter 6?

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

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

4. Where was a dead woman found in the winter?

5. Which friend of August's had similar hands to her mother, as mentioned in Chapter 4?

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