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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As mentioned in Chapter 1, what do the Hindu people do with the dead?
(a) The dead are buried next to their loved ones.
(b) The dead loved ones' bodies are placed in a special room for days before burying them.
(c) The dead are placed on makeshift rafts and sent them out on the Ganges.
(d) The dead are burned and their ashes are spread in the Ganges.

2. How did August's mother feel about friendships among women as indicated in Chapter 2?
(a) Women are beautiful creatures, whereas men will turn against you.
(b) Women are wicked and cruel and only want to hurt you.
(c) Keep women away, because they cannot be trusted.
(d) Keep women close, because they will always be there to help.

3. What trains did August and her family take on their Saturday trips to Coney Island?
(a) A and D.
(b) B and F.
(c) L and A.
(d) L and F.

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

5. 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 told her that it was none of her business.
(d) August's father said the jar contained ashes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the ice cream truck August and her brother saw through their apartment window?

3. How old was Gigi when she was raped by the soldier who slept in the stairwell of her building?

4. At the start of Chapter 5, what does August say Gigi's mother said about Gigi?

5. What narrative perspective is Another Brooklyn related?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led to August's father granting August and her brother more freedom after they had moved to Brooklyn?

2. Who was Jennie and how is she described in the narrative?

3. How did drug abuse factor into August's childhood?

4. What does August say about the children of Biafra in 1968?

5. Who was Miss Dora and how is she described in the narrative?

6. What did Angela want to be when she grew up? Why?

7. What did Gigi want to be when she grew up? Why?

8. Why did Gigi warn her friends not to sing in their churches' choirs?

9. What does the jar of ashes represent in the novel?

10. What tragic event befell Gigi when she was 12?

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