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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 for drugs.
(d) August walked the streets looking for her mother.

2. When August asked about the jar in the apartment, what did her father tell her?
(a) August's father said the jar had all the money he had saved to get them out of their dilapidated apartment.
(b) August's father said the jar contained ashes.
(c) August's father told her it held all of her mother's most cherished things.
(d) August's father told her that it was none of her business.

3. As divulged in Chapter 5, what profession did Gigi want to become when she got older?
(a) Gigi wanted to be an anthropologist.
(b) Gigi wanted to become an actress.
(c) Gigi wanted to be a banker.
(d) Gigi longed to be a lawyer.

4. What trains did August and her family take on their Saturday trips to Coney Island?
(a) A and D.
(b) L and F.
(c) B and F.
(d) L and A.

5. 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?
(a) Top 40.
(b) Pop.
(c) The Blues.
(d) Jazz.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did August and her brother feed the neighboring children in her apartment building at the end of Chapter 6?

3. At the end of Chapter 5, how did Sylvia respond when August, Gigi, and Angela asked her what she loved?

4. What magazine reminded August that her family was not as poor as others?

5. As indicated in Chapter 4, what did August say her father had to do, because they had to live without August's mother?

(see the answer key)

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