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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poet does the author cite when describing remembering and imagining as "the powerful, the uncommon, the awakening of stones" (171) in her Author's Notes at the end of the novel?
(a) William Blake.
(b) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) William Wordsworth.

2. On the final Page of Chapter 11, what realization did August have?
(a) August accepted that the girls were on earth, heading home to Brooklyn, and would most likely not leave.
(b) August revealed that her father was beating her.
(c) August reminded Angela that life would always be difficult, and there was nothing they could do.
(d) August shared that she was fearful her mother would never return.

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

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

5. What major event happened to August's brother in Chapter 2?
(a) August's brother got severely beaten by their father.
(b) August's brother cut his forearm on the broken glass of the window.
(c) August's brother left to live with their mother.
(d) August's brother ran away, but their father found him hiding under a bridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What season was it when August's father took her and her brother to SweetGrove in Chapter 16?

2. In Chapter 1, while meeting with therapist, Sister Sonja, as a teenager for the first time, how did August begin the session?

3. What is the name of the area where August and her family lived before moving to Brooklyn?

4. How much older is August than her brother?

5. How long has it been since August's childhood when she describes her father's funeral?

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