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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did August and her brother ask Sister Loretta to do with her hair?
(a) August and her brother told Sister Loretta to cut her hair short like their mother.
(b) August and her brother told Sister Loretta to wear her hair down more often.
(c) August and her brother asked Sister Loretta to show them her hair.
(d) August and her brother asked Sister Loretta to dye her hair blonde.

2. How old was August when she went sexually further with Jerome than just kissing at the end of Chapter 9?
(a) 16.
(b) 13.
(c) 15.
(d) 12.

3. What temperature did it raise the summer August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela had boyfriends? (123-124).
(a) 99 degrees.
(b) Over 99 degrees.
(c) 89 degrees.
(d) Over 100 degrees.

4. When August was a child, what statement did she always tell her brother when he asked about their mother?
(a) "Stop worrying. She loves us. She will come for us" (15).
(b) "She's coming...Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" (15).
(c) "She is gone...There is nothing we can do" (16).
(d) "She's coming...soon" (14).

5. What did Gigi audition for at the start of Chapter 10?
(a) A performing arts school in Yonkers.
(b) A performing arts school in Manhattan.
(c) A dance school in Ithaca.
(d) A school for maths and sciences in the Bronx.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why could Gigi not tell her mother about the rape?

2. What does August say saved her brother from feeling "halfway whole" (3)?

3. What was the name of the woman who braided August's hair as indicated in the latter part of Chapter 4?

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

5. In Chapter 12, according to August, where is "Down South?"

(see the answer key)

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