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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 feed the neighboring children in her apartment building at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) Potatoes, colorful salads, and almonds.
(b) Potato chips, apples, and nuts.
(c) Ham sandwiches and popcorn.
(d) Fried pork chops and fruit.

2. What did the August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi decide to do to protect Gigi after she was sexually assaulted?
(a) August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi resolved to kill any man who approached them.
(b) August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi determined that they would carry razor blades with them.
(c) August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi decided to tell the police.
(d) August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi chose to always walk Gigi to her apartment.

3. What does August say saved her brother from feeling "halfway whole" (3)?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Faith.
(c) Education.
(d) Brooklyn.

4. August said that her family was not poor, but instead, they were something else. What was August's family?
(a) "middle-class" (123).
(b) "...just like everyone else in Brooklyn" (123).
(c) "...merely a minority" (122).
(d) "...on the edge of poverty" (122).

5. In what condition did August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi find the man who raped Gigi in Chapter 4?
(a) The man hid underneath the stairs "waited for the girls and jumped out like he wanted to rape all the girls" (58).
(b) The man had "a needle clinched and dripping from his left hand" (59).
(c) The man was "asleep, alone, and snoring" (59).
(d) The man "...was shooting up heroin and had a look the girls had never seen before" (54).

Short Answer Questions

1. After August's father brought home a radio, how did August say she would have responded if asked, "Are you lonely?" (47).

2. What sort of lessons did Sylvia take that were surprising to August in Chapter 9?

3. What is the origin of August's birth name?

4. As divulged in Chapter 5, what profession did Gigi want to become when she got older?

5. Which friend of August's had similar hands to her mother, as mentioned in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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