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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'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 put a dark sheet over it and told them to stop looking out of it.
(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 broke the window and yelled at August and her brother.

2. As a young girl, why did August roam the streets at the start of Chapter 3?
(a) August ran around the streets with her girlfriends.
(b) August roamed the streets asking for money.
(c) August walked the streets looking for her mother.
(d) August walked the streets for drugs.

3. What is the name of the area where August and her family lived before moving to Brooklyn?
(a) SweetGrove.
(b) BitterFields.
(c) Tennessee Swamp.
(d) The Bronx.

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

5. At the start of Chapter 2, what year does the narrative shift to?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1984.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator claim is the most tragic thing about life (1)?

3. How did August's father die?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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