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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 narrative perspective is Another Brooklyn related?
(a) Second person.
(b) Third person limited.
(c) First person.
(d) Third person omniscient.

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

3. As referenced in Chapter 1, when August was 15, where did her father send her for the summer?
(a) A mosque to pray.
(b) August's mother's home in Tennessee.
(c) A boarding school in New York City.
(d) A therapist, Sister Sonja.

4. What does the narrator claim is the most tragic thing about life (1)?
(a) The moment.
(b) The memory.
(c) The end of childhood.
(d) The loss of a mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the Quote that precedes the narrative, what will you find when you turn right?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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