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

2. In Chapter 1, while meeting with therapist, Sister Sonja, as a teenager for the first time, how did August begin the session?
(a) "I hope my mother is alive..." (15).
(b) "She will never come back..." (12).
(c) "I was waiting for my mother..." (15).
(d) "I merely want to see her..." (16).

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

4. How long has it been since August's childhood when she describes her father's funeral?
(a) 6 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 10 years.

5. What did August and her brother believe happened to their father's fingers well into their teens?
(a) A dog had eaten their father's fingers.
(b) Their father lost his fingers in a fight.
(c) Their mother bit their father's fingers off.
(d) The war took their father's fingers away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gigi audition for at the start of Chapter 10?

2. What did the woman who lived below August's apartment look like?

3. How old was August when she went sexually further with Jerome than just kissing at the end of Chapter 9?

4. What did August's father do to the apartment window she and her brother always peered through?

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

(see the answer key)

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