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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, while meeting with therapist, Sister Sonja, as a teenager for the first time, how did August begin the session?
(a) "I merely want to see her..." (16).
(b) "I was waiting for my mother..." (15).
(c) "I hope my mother is alive..." (15).
(d) "She will never come back..." (12).

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

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

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

5. 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 was dressed in expensive clothing.
(c) Sylvia had a child on her lap and looked content.
(d) Sylvia had not aged at all and had reddish brown hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what did August notice about the white people in her apartment building?

2. What narrative perspective is Another Brooklyn related?

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

4. In Chapter 1, what did August's brother ask her after their father's funeral (4)?

5. How did August's mother feel about friendships among women as indicated in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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