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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 is the origin of August's birth name?
(a) August was her mother's favorite month.
(b) August's parents were married in August.
(c) "August" sounded beautiful to her mother.
(d) August was born in the month of August.

2. 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 had reddish brown hair.
(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 was dressed in expensive clothing.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As referenced in Chapter 1, when August was 15, where did her father send her for the summer?

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

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

4. What narrative perspective is Another Brooklyn related?

5. What did August's father do to the apartment window she and her brother always peered through?

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