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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 an adult returning to New York, where did August and her brother go after their father's funeral?
(a) A drive to Tennessee to visit family.
(b) Their father's apartment to organize his things.
(c) A diner in New Jersey.
(d) Their father's grave sight.

2. How did August's father die?
(a) Lung cancer.
(b) Liver disease.
(c) Natural causes.
(d) Heart attack.

3. According to the Quote that precedes the narrative, what will you find when you turn right?
(a) An old wise man.
(b) The threat of teenage boys.
(c) A peach tree blooming.
(d) The files of SweetGrove.

4. What was the color of the pullout sofa in August's childhood apartment?
(a) Dark green.
(b) Dark brown.
(c) Dark blue.
(d) Light red.

5. In what condition did August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi find the man who raped Gigi in Chapter 4?
(a) The man was "asleep, alone, and snoring" (59).
(b) The man had "a needle clinched and dripping from his left hand" (59).
(c) The man hid underneath the stairs "waited for the girls and jumped out like he wanted to rape all the girls" (58).
(d) The man "...was shooting up heroin and had a look the girls had never seen before" (54).

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did August's mother's brother, Clyde, go to college? (51).

3. As divulged in Chapter 5, what profession did Gigi want to become when she got older?

4. In Chapter 1, what did August's brother ask her after their father's funeral (4)?

5. What did August and her brother do at night as explained at the end of Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How is Coney Island described in Chapter 4?

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

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

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

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