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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 Sister Loretta cook for the family when she arrived at August's family apartment?
(a) Navy beans and collared greens.
(b) Navy beans and eggplant Parmesan.
(c) Eggplant Parmesan and shrimp.
(d) Spaghetti with real tomato sauce.

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

3. How did August, Sylvia, and Angela respond to Gigi's rape?
(a) August, Sylvia, and Angela insisted that Gigi immediately tell her mother.
(b) August, Sylvia, and Angela made a plan to run away with Gigi.
(c) August, Sylvia, and Angela told Gigi that she could stay at Sylvia's house to get away from him.
(d) August, Sylvia, and Angela promised to find the man and kill him.

4. 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 was "asleep, alone, and snoring" (59).
(c) The man had "a needle clinched and dripping from his left hand" (59).
(d) The man hid underneath the stairs "waited for the girls and jumped out like he wanted to rape all the girls" (58).

5. As a young girl, why did August roam the streets at the start of Chapter 3?
(a) August walked the streets for drugs.
(b) August ran around the streets with her girlfriends.
(c) August walked the streets looking for her mother.
(d) August roamed the streets asking for money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What passion did August's brother discover when he is eight years old?

2. At the start of the novel, what style of music does the narrator say was "trying to tell our [the girls'] story" (2) despite the fact that it never quite got them?

3. What major event is described at the opening of Chapter 8?

4. What did the August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi decide to do to protect Gigi after she was sexually assaulted?

5. What did August and her brother believe happened to their father's fingers well into their teens?

(see the answer key)

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