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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 major event is described at the opening of Chapter 8?
(a) The 9/11 attacks on New York City.
(b) A massive fire that broke out in San Francisco.
(c) August's family's return to SweetGrove.
(d) A blackout in New York City.

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 show them her hair.
(c) August and her brother told Sister Loretta to cut her hair short like their mother.
(d) August and her brother asked Sister Loretta to dye her hair blonde.

3. How many sisters did Sylvia have according to August in Chapter 9?
(a) 0.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

4. What was August's father's response in reference to Sylvia's father on Page 115?
(a) "August, Sylvia is not a good friend; her father has too much influence over her."
(b) "He's a good man. He has his God. A man needs his God."
(c) "He is a horrible father. You will not stay there."
(d) "Sylvia has a conceited father and I do not like him."

5. What confession did Angela make to the girls on Page 113?
(a) Angela wanted to run away.
(b) Angela did not know where her mother was.
(c) Angela slept with a boy.
(d) Angela started her period.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did August feel about the free items she received after the catastrophe that happened in her neighborhood?

2. What did Angela say after a dead woman was found in Brooklyn during the winter?

3. What did August pray for at the end of Chapter 8?

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

5. What book did August's father read after Sister Loretta arrived?

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. Who was the Son of Sam and why is he referenced?

5. What happened to Angela's mother?

6. What became August's brother's obsession when he was eight? Why?

7. To whom does August compare Jennie's children in Chapter 12?

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

9. How does August describe Gigi's mother in Chapter 10?

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

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