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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what Brooklyn neighborhood did Jacqueline Woodson grow up, and likewise set Another Brooklyn?
(a) Williamsburg.
(b) Bed-Stuy.
(c) Bushwick.
(d) Brooklyn Heights.

2. Where was the cast party for the play that Gigi performed in, in Chapter 14?
(a) Gigi's apartment.
(b) The director's home.
(c) The Palacio de la Alconetar.
(d) The Chelsea Hotel.

3. How did August feel about the women her father brought home?
(a) August hated the women and asked her father to stop bringing them home.
(b) August hoped one of them would become her mother.
(c) August did not care what her father did.
(d) August wished they would disappear and her own mother would return.

4. Where was August at a cafe when the woman she had lived with for eight months asked why she slept with fisted hands in Chapter 15?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) San Francisco.

5. In Chapter 15, August says, "In Angela's fisted hands," who "staggered past us and we didn't know her name"?
(a) Carmen McRae.
(b) Ornette Coleman.
(c) Billie Holiday.
(d) Tavares.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did August find when she arrived at the location of her childhood home in SweetGrove in Chapter 16?

2. How did Sister Loretta, August's father's new girlfriend, dress when August met her for the first time?

3. Who was with August when she stepped off the bus in the opening of Chapter 15?

4. What is the "something new, unfamiliar" (154) that August describes her future stretching toward in Chapter 14?

5. By what name did August ask to be called by her professor in Chapter 15?

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