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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After leaving her brother and returning to their father's apartment after the funeral, how did August feel?
(a) A lack of any emotion.
(b) A sense of deep relief and fear.
(c) Extreme and unbearable sadness.
(d) Solace and ease.

2. What was August's brother's wife's name in the most-recent timeline?
(a) Sonja.
(b) Alafia.
(c) Fatima.
(d) Sarah.

3. How did August's mother feel about friendships among women as indicated in Chapter 2?
(a) Women are wicked and cruel and only want to hurt you.
(b) Keep women close, because they will always be there to help.
(c) Women are beautiful creatures, whereas men will turn against you.
(d) Keep women away, because they cannot be trusted.

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

5. How does August describe her friend Sylvia when she accidentally ran into her on the train years after leaving Brooklyn?
(a) Sylvia had not aged at all and was dressed in expensive clothing.
(b) Sylvia looked so different that August barely recognized her.
(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. What is the name of the area where August and her family lived before moving to Brooklyn?

2. While listening to a church sermon in Chapter 2, what question did August pose to God?

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

4. 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?

5. What narrative perspective is Another Brooklyn related?

(see the answer key)

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