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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 did August pray for at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) Her mother.
(b) A bigger apartment.
(c) A new job for her father.
(d) More friends.

2. What did Gigi audition for at the start of Chapter 10?
(a) A performing arts school in Yonkers.
(b) A performing arts school in Manhattan.
(c) A dance school in Ithaca.
(d) A school for maths and sciences in the Bronx.

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

4. What passion did August's brother discover when he is eight years old?
(a) Physics.
(b) Math.
(c) Writing.
(d) English literature.

5. At the start of Chapter 11, how old did the girls turn?
(a) 13.
(b) 12.
(c) 16.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sister Loretta cook for the family when she arrived at August's family apartment?

2. What did August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela whisper back to their boyfriends when they tried to have sex with them?

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

4. On the final Page of Chapter 11, what realization did August have?

5. How did Sister Loretta, August's father's new girlfriend, dress when August met her for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does "gentrification" mean and how does it apply in the novel?

3. What led to the alienation between Sylvia and her friends in Chapter 10?

4. What did Sylvia's father do to her boyfriend in Chapter 13? Why?

5. What did Sister Loretta bring to August's household?

6. What is the significance of the urn described in Chapter 10?

7. What does August remember of Clyde?

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

9. How is Alana described in Chapter 12?

10. What happened to Angela's mother?

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