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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. Why could Gigi not tell her mother about the rape?
(a) Her mother would make them move away from Brooklyn.
(b) Her mother would blame Gigi.
(c) The man was her mother's boyfriend.
(d) Her mother would kill the man.

2. How much older is August than her brother?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 6 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 4 years.

3. What did Sylvia say about the altar boys at her church as a response to Gigi's secret about the pastor at her church?
(a) The altar boys were abused.
(b) The altar boys were rude and disrespectful of the elders of the church.
(c) The altar boys only wanted to worship and go home.
(d) The altar boys should not be trusted if you were the only altar girl.

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

5. What was the name of the ice cream truck August and her brother saw through their apartment window?
(a) Misses Creamery Truck.
(b) Misses Chocolate.
(c) Mister Softee.
(d) Mister Ice Cream.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi decide to do to protect Gigi after she was sexually assaulted?

2. As a young girl, why did August roam the streets at the start of Chapter 3?

3. What was the first thing Sylvia asked August when they met?

4. After leaving her brother and returning to their father's apartment after the funeral, how did August feel?

5. Who was portrayed as "starving" at the start of Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What about Angela reminded August of her mother? Why?

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

5. From what perspective and tense is the story related? How is the novel framed?

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

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

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

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

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

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