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

2. As referenced in Chapter 1, when August was 15, where did her father send her for the summer?
(a) August's mother's home in Tennessee.
(b) A mosque to pray.
(c) A therapist, Sister Sonja.
(d) A boarding school in New York City.

3. In Chapter 2, what did August notice about the white people in her apartment building?
(a) The white people were always fighting and arguing in the hallways.
(b) The white people were jovial and friendly.
(c) The white people were moving out of the building.
(d) The white people were causing riots and violence.

4. Where did August's mother's brother, Clyde, go to college? (51).
(a) University of Texas.
(b) Howard University.
(c) Brown University.
(d) University of Tennessee.

5. As divulged in Chapter 5, what profession did Gigi want to become when she got older?
(a) Gigi wanted to become an actress.
(b) Gigi longed to be a lawyer.
(c) Gigi wanted to be an anthropologist.
(d) Gigi wanted to be a banker.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 4, who moved into the apartment below August's family?

3. Which friend of August's had similar hands to her mother, as mentioned in Chapter 4?

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

5. Toward the end of Chapter 7, what did August want to say to her mother about trusting women?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did August think about Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi when she first saw them?

2. Why does August say in Chapter 4, "We didn't understand the kind of poverty we lived in" (42)?

3. What did Gigi's mother tell her about her appearance when she was six?

4. Why did August think that her mother would come to her in Brooklyn while growing up?

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

6. In what ways did August and her friends protect themselves from the streets when they were adolescents?

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

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

9. What is the significance of the quote that opens the novel?

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

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