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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why would August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela possibly get sent "Down South?"
(a) Skipping school.
(b) Having boyfriends.
(c) Pregnancy.
(d) Bad behavior.

2. What did August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela whisper back to their boyfriends when they tried to have sex with them?
(a) "Please, be gentle" (125).
(b) "Not that, not yet" (125).
(c) "We are only girls. Wait until we are women" (126).
(d) "We are too young" (124).

3. In Chapter 8, what did August hear when her father started bringing women to the apartment for the first time?
(a) Banging and yelling.
(b) Screaming and crying.
(c) Hushed laughter and moans.
(d) Whispers and bottles breaking.

4. What did Sylvia bring to the park to share with the girls after she had left their school?
(a) A bottle of wine.
(b) A joint.
(c) A nude photo of her boyfriend.
(d) A cigarette.

5. What did August pray for at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) A bigger apartment.
(b) A new job for her father.
(c) Her mother.
(d) More friends.

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. At the end of Chapter 11, how old were August and Jerome?

3. When did August visit her father in New York City (5)?

4. In what condition did August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi find the man who raped Gigi in Chapter 4?

5. As referenced in Chapter 1, when August was 15, where did her father send her for the summer?

(see the answer key)

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