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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. When Sylvia's father told August she could not come over anymore, how did August feel?
(a) August felt like a ghetto girl.
(b) August felt stupid and unambitious.
(c) August felt like Sylvia was conceited.
(d) August felt relieved.

2. What did August and her brother ask Sister Loretta to do with her hair?
(a) August and her brother told Sister Loretta to wear her hair down more often.
(b) August and her brother asked Sister Loretta to dye her hair blonde.
(c) August and her brother asked Sister Loretta to show them her hair.
(d) August and her brother told Sister Loretta to cut her hair short like their mother.

3. What did Sylvia's mother tell August and her friends when they visited?
(a) "Dreams are not for people who look like you" (103).
(b) "You cannot come over, because you are poor" (103).
(c) "Happiness is for people like us" (102).
(d) "Sylvia is better than you. You will never compare" (103).

4. August said that her family was not poor, but instead, they were something else. What was August's family?
(a) "...just like everyone else in Brooklyn" (123).
(b) "...merely a minority" (122).
(c) "middle-class" (123).
(d) "...on the edge of poverty" (122).

5. Where did August look for Jennie's children faces at the start of Chapter 12?
(a) The hallways of her apartment building.
(b) The faces of strangers.
(c) The outside of Jennie's apartment.
(d) The streets of Brooklyn.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was August when she went sexually further with Jerome than just kissing at the end of Chapter 9?

2. What did August and her brother say at the door of Jennie's of apartment on Page 121?

3. Why would August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela possibly get sent "Down South?"

4. What did Jerome do to August that was the first sign of their relationship?

5. What confession did Angela make to the girls on Page 113?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Summer Food Service Program?

2. What did Sister Loretta wear when she met August?

3. Why were August and her brother forbidden from going out in the neighborhod in the summer of 1977?

4. How did August and her friends explore sexuality in Chapter 11?

5. What happened to Angela's mother?

6. What does August say about her Muslim beliefs in Chapter 9?

7. How does August describe the changing perceptions of her and her friends as they began adolescence in Chapter 11?

8. Who were the boyfriends that August's friends had begun seeing in Chapter 12?

9. What did Angela say to August during the fireworks in Chapter 11? How did August respond?

10. What lesson did Charlsetta demonstrate to August and her friends?

(see the answer keys)

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