Another Brooklyn Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Another Brooklyn Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. While listening to a church sermon in Chapter 2, what question did August pose to God?
(a) "Do you even exist? If so, why are you so unfair?" (21).
(b) "How could God take away my mother?" (22).
(c) "Why did God only love the white people?" (23).
(d) "What does God do with his daughters?" (23).

3. What narrative perspective is Another Brooklyn related?
(a) First person.
(b) Third person omniscient.
(c) Second person.
(d) Third person limited.

4. In the middle of Chapter 7, what did Gigi share about the pastor at her church?
(a) Gigi shared that the pastor was having an affair with her mother.
(b) Gigi admitted that the pastor took her into a back room and raped her.
(c) Gigi declared that the pastor was stealing money from the congregation.
(d) Gigi confessed that the pastor came up behind her and rubbed against her inappropriately.

5. What was the name of the woman who braided August's hair as indicated in the latter part of Chapter 4?
(a) Miss Erica.
(b) Miss Alfia.
(c) Miss Sonja.
(d) Miss Dora.

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 cut his forearm on the broken glass of the window.
(d) August's brother ran away, but their father found him hiding under a bridge.

7. What magazine reminded August that her family was not as poor as others?
(a) People.
(b) National Geographic.
(c) Time.
(d) Life.

8. What did August want, do, and/or think, when she first saw Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi as a child in Brooklyn?
(a) August hated them because she had no friends.
(b) August had a natural distaste for the girls.
(c) August wanted to be a part of who they were.
(d) August yelled at the girls for being stuck-up.

9. How old was Gigi when she was raped by the soldier who slept in the stairwell of her building?
(a) 11.
(b) 18.
(c) 12.
(d) 16.

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

11. What vocation did Sylvia believe her father wanted her to become when she was older?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Singer.
(d) Nurse.

12. What does the narrator claim is the most tragic thing about life (1)?
(a) The moment.
(b) The end of childhood.
(c) The memory.
(d) The loss of a mother.

13. What did August's father do to the apartment window she and her brother always peered through?
(a) August's father took a knife and cut the top of the window frame.
(b) August's father replaced it with a new window that made it easier for August and her brother to see through.
(c) August's father put a dark sheet over it and told them to stop looking out of it.
(d) August's father broke the window and yelled at August and her brother.

14. At the end of Chapter 5, how did Sylvia respond when August, Gigi, and Angela asked her what she loved?
(a) Sylvia replied, "I will be the most famous actress ever" (62).
(b) Sylvia answered, "I'm not the boss of me. How the hell would I even know" (63).
(c) Sylvia told the girls, "I have no clue. My parents will decide that" (63).
(d) Sylvia rejoined, "I'm too young to answer that question" (62).

15. What was August's brother's wife's name in the most-recent timeline?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Fatima.
(c) Alafia.
(d) Sonja.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did August, Sylvia, and Angela respond to Gigi's rape?

2. What did August and her brother do at night as explained at the end of Chapter 7?

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

4. Why could Gigi not tell her mother about the rape?

5. As divulged in Chapter 5, what profession did Gigi want to become when she got older?

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