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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. How did August, Sylvia, and Angela respond to Gigi's rape?
(a) August, Sylvia, and Angela insisted that Gigi immediately tell her mother.
(b) August, Sylvia, and Angela promised to find the man and kill him.
(c) August, Sylvia, and Angela told Gigi that she could stay at Sylvia's house to get away from him.
(d) August, Sylvia, and Angela made a plan to run away with Gigi.

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

3. What is the name of the area where August and her family lived before moving to Brooklyn?
(a) BitterFields.
(b) SweetGrove.
(c) Tennessee Swamp.
(d) The Bronx.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What narrative perspective is Another Brooklyn related?

2. What did the woman who lived below August's apartment look like?

3. What trains did August and her family take on their Saturday trips to Coney Island?

4. Who reminded August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela of the old man who ran a sketchy shoe repair shop?

5. What magazine reminded August that her family was not as poor as others?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does August say about the music of her childhood in Chapter 1?

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

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

6. How is the novel structured? Is the story related in a linear fashion or nonlinear? Why is this important?

7. How is Coney Island described in Chapter 4?

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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