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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a young girl, why did August roam the streets at the start of Chapter 3?
(a) August roamed the streets asking for money.
(b) August ran around the streets with her girlfriends.
(c) August walked the streets looking for her mother.
(d) August walked the streets for drugs.

2. Which girl (August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela) was the most popular, as mentioned in Chapter 5?
(a) Angela.
(b) Sylvia.
(c) Gigi.
(d) August.

3. What did August and her brother feed the neighboring children in her apartment building at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) Potatoes, colorful salads, and almonds.
(b) Ham sandwiches and popcorn.
(c) Fried pork chops and fruit.
(d) Potato chips, apples, and nuts.

4. What is the origin of August's birth name?
(a) August was her mother's favorite month.
(b) "August" sounded beautiful to her mother.
(c) August's parents were married in August.
(d) August was born in the month of August.

5. Who was August's "Mommy" talking to when August, her father, and her brother left Tennessee?
(a) Uncle Clyde.
(b) Another man.
(c) Fairies.
(d) Ghosts.

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

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

8. In Chapter 4, who moved into the apartment below August's family?
(a) Jennie.
(b) Crystal.
(c) Emily.
(d) Sarah.

9. As an adult returning to New York, where did August and her brother go after their father's funeral?
(a) A diner in New Jersey.
(b) A drive to Tennessee to visit family.
(c) Their father's apartment to organize his things.
(d) Their father's grave sight.

10. In Chapter 1, what did August's brother ask her after their father's funeral (4)?
(a) "Do you think it is better he [father] is dead?"
(b) "Have you seen mom yet?"
(c) "What will you do now?"
(d) "Still whole?"

11. At the start of the novel, what style of music does the narrator say was "trying to tell our [the girls'] story" (2) despite the fact that it never quite got them?
(a) The Blues.
(b) Pop.
(c) Top 40.
(d) Jazz.

12. After leaving her brother and returning to their father's apartment after the funeral, how did August feel?
(a) A lack of any emotion.
(b) A sense of deep relief and fear.
(c) Solace and ease.
(d) Extreme and unbearable sadness.

13. Which friend of August's had similar hands to her mother, as mentioned in Chapter 4?
(a) Gigi.
(b) Angela.
(c) Sylvia.
(d) Sonja.

14. After August's father brought home a radio, how did August say she would have responded if asked, "Are you lonely?" (47).
(a) August said that this new radio only reminded her of how lonely her life was.
(b) August revealed that she would answer that she was lonely, but had no way to cure it.
(c) August confessed that she would reply that she was not lonely, because her brother was with her.
(d) August said that her mother's absence made her so incredibly lonely.

15. How did August's father die?
(a) Lung cancer.
(b) Natural causes.
(c) Liver disease.
(d) Heart attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. As mentioned in Chapter 1, what do the Hindu people do with the dead?

2. In what condition did August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi find the man who raped Gigi in Chapter 4?

3. What does August say saved her brother from feeling "halfway whole" (3)?

4. When did August visit her father in New York City (5)?

5. What did Gigi's mother say about Gigi's skin tone?

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