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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did August want, do, and/or think, when she first saw Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi as a child in Brooklyn?
(a) August hated them because she had no friends.
(b) August wanted to be a part of who they were.
(c) August had a natural distaste for the girls.
(d) August yelled at the girls for being stuck-up.

2. 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?
(a) The Blues.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Pop.
(d) Top 40.

3. In Chapter 2, what did August notice about the white people in her apartment building?
(a) The white people were always fighting and arguing in the hallways.
(b) The white people were moving out of the building.
(c) The white people were causing riots and violence.
(d) The white people were jovial and friendly.

4. In Chapter 1, what did August's brother ask her after their father's funeral (4)?
(a) "Have you seen mom yet?"
(b) "Do you think it is better he [father] is dead?"
(c) "Still whole?"
(d) "What will you do now?"

5. 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) "How could God take away my mother?" (22).
(c) "Do you even exist? If so, why are you so unfair?" (21).
(d) "Why did God only love the white people?" (23).

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long has it been since August's childhood when she describes her father's funeral?

3. What was the first thing Sylvia asked August when they met?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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