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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. What did the August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi decide to do to protect Gigi after she was sexually assaulted?
(a) August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi decided to tell the police.
(b) August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi determined that they would carry razor blades with them.
(c) August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi chose to always walk Gigi to her apartment.
(d) August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi resolved to kill any man who approached them.

2. What did the girls say to boys who called August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela's names in Chapter 7?
(a) "Stop trying to get into our pants. We know what you want."
(b) "Don't look at us. We hate you."
(c) "We are better than you and your stupid friends."
(d) "Don't even say my name. Don't even put it in your mouth."

3. Who originally owned the land where Augusts's family lived in Tennessee?
(a) Her paternal grandmother.
(b) Her second cousin.
(c) Her great-great aunt.
(d) Her maternal grandfather.

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

5. In the middle of Chapter 7, what did Gigi share about the pastor at her church?
(a) Gigi admitted that the pastor took her into a back room and raped her.
(b) Gigi shared that the pastor was having an affair with her mother.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was one song August listened to as she had her hair braided?

3. What was August's brother's wife's name in the most-recent timeline?

4. When August was a child, what statement did she always tell her brother when he asked about their mother?

5. What narrative perspective is Another Brooklyn related?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Clyde and why is he significant in the novel?

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

3. What did SweetGrove represent to August when she was growing up?

4. What did August and her friends think of one another before they met?

5. How is Coney Island described in Chapter 4?

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

7. What is the career choice that August has chosen? Why is this significant?

8. What are the circumstances of August's brother in the most-recent timeline in the novel?

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

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

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