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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why could Gigi not tell her mother about the rape?
(a) Her mother would make them move away from Brooklyn.
(b) Her mother would blame Gigi.
(c) Her mother would kill the man.
(d) The man was her mother's boyfriend.

2. Where did August, her father, and her brother take the train to on their way to SweetGrove in Chapter 16?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Texas.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) North Carolina.

3. Where did August's mother's brother, Clyde, go to college? (51).
(a) Howard University.
(b) University of Tennessee.
(c) Brown University.
(d) University of Texas.

4. In Chapter 9, what did August say she wanted to be when she grew up?
(a) A grown-up.
(b) A singer.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A wife.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was August when she first saw Jerome in Chapter 9?

2. What percentage of the earth is water, according to August in Chapter 14?

3. Which friend of August's had similar hands to her mother, as mentioned in Chapter 4?

4. How did Sylvia convince her father to let August, Angela, and Gigi stay over at Sylvia's house?

5. August describes the tribes of what area and their death rituals at the end of Chapter 14?

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