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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much older is August than her brother?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 6 years.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 1 year.

2. What was the name of the ice cream truck August and her brother saw through their apartment window?
(a) Misses Chocolate.
(b) Mister Softee.
(c) Mister Ice Cream.
(d) Misses Creamery Truck.

3. In Chapter 1, while meeting with therapist, Sister Sonja, as a teenager for the first time, how did August begin the session?
(a) "I merely want to see her..." (16).
(b) "She will never come back..." (12).
(c) "I hope my mother is alive..." (15).
(d) "I was waiting for my mother..." (15).

4. 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 had a child on her lap and looked content.
(c) Sylvia looked so different that August barely recognized her.
(d) Sylvia had not aged at all and was dressed in expensive clothing.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. As an adult returning to New York, where did August and her brother go after their father's funeral?

(see the answer key)

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