1. What is the name of the area where August and her family lived before moving to Brooklyn?
(a) The Bronx.
(b) SweetGrove.
(c) BitterFields.
(d) Tennessee Swamp.

2. What was the first thing Sylvia asked August when they met?
(a) "What's your name? I've never seen you before" (36).
(b) "Do you want to have lunch with us. I have an extra sandwich" (33).
(c) "Why do you stare at us like that? What are you looking for?" (36).
(d) "Why do you look at us that way? We don't like you" (35).

3. While listening to a church sermon in Chapter 2, what question did August pose to God?
(a) "How could God take away my mother?" (22).
(b) "Do you even exist? If so, why are you so unfair?" (21).
(c) "What does God do with his daughters?" (23).
(d) "Why did God only love the white people?" (23).

4. What did August and her brother do at night as explained at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) August and her brother held hands.
(b) August and her brother sang hymns together.
(c) August and her brother created a plan to run away.
(d) August and her brother cried all night.

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