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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While listening to a church sermon in Chapter 2, what question did August pose to God?
(a) "Do you even exist? If so, why are you so unfair?" (21).
(b) "Why did God only love the white people?" (23).
(c) "How could God take away my mother?" (22).
(d) "What does God do with his daughters?" (23).

2. When did August visit her father in New York City (5)?
(a) Thanksgiving Day.
(b) Christmas Day.
(c) New Year's Eve.
(d) August's birthday.

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

4. As mentioned in Chapter 1, what do the Hindu people do with the dead?
(a) The dead are buried next to their loved ones.
(b) The dead are placed on makeshift rafts and sent them out on the Ganges.
(c) The dead are burned and their ashes are spread in the Ganges.
(d) The dead loved ones' bodies are placed in a special room for days before burying them.

5. What does August say saved her brother from feeling "halfway whole" (3)?
(a) Faith.
(b) Education.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Brooklyn.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After leaving her brother and returning to their father's apartment after the funeral, how did August feel?

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

4. How does August describe her friend Sylvia when she accidentally ran into her on the train years after leaving Brooklyn?

5. In Chapter 1, while meeting with therapist, Sister Sonja, as a teenager for the first time, how did August begin the session?

(see the answer key)

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