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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. August said that her family was not poor, but instead, they were something else. What was August's family?
(a) "...just like everyone else in Brooklyn" (123).
(b) "middle-class" (123).
(c) "...on the edge of poverty" (122).
(d) "...merely a minority" (122).

2. How old was Jerome when he met August?
(a) 16.
(b) 12.
(c) 11.
(d) 14.

3. When August asked about the jar in the apartment, what did her father tell her?
(a) August's father told her it held all of her mother's most cherished things.
(b) August's father said the jar had all the money he had saved to get them out of their dilapidated apartment.
(c) August's father told her that it was none of her business.
(d) August's father said the jar contained ashes.

4. August describes the tribes of what area and their death rituals at the end of Chapter 14?
(a) Canada.
(b) Arizona.
(c) The Pacific Northwest.
(d) Fiji.

5. What did August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela whisper back to their boyfriends when they tried to have sex with them?
(a) "We are too young" (124).
(b) "We are only girls. Wait until we are women" (126).
(c) "Please, be gentle" (125).
(d) "Not that, not yet" (125).

Short Answer Questions

1. On what floor was the cast party for the show that Gigi performed in, in Chapter 14?

2. What did Sylvia's mother tell August and her friends when they visited?

3. What did Sister Loretta cook for the family when she arrived at August's family apartment?

4. What was the name of the woman who braided August's hair as indicated in the latter part of Chapter 4?

5. In Chapter 9, what did Sister Loretta call the food that August's family ate before she started coming to the apartment?

(see the answer key)

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