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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 does the narrator claim is the most tragic thing about life (1)?
(a) The loss of a mother.
(b) The end of childhood.
(c) The memory.
(d) The moment.

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

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

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

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. What is the first thing Jerome said to August?

2. How many sisters did Sylvia have according to August in Chapter 9?

3. What did Sylvia bring to the park to share with the girls after she had left their school?

4. Who was August's "Mommy" talking to when August, her father, and her brother left Tennessee?

5. What was August's brother's wife's name in the most-recent timeline?

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