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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much older is August than her brother?

2. How did August's mother feel about friendships among women as indicated in Chapter 2?

3. In Chapter 4, who moved into the apartment below August's family?

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

5. At the end of Chapter 5, how did Sylvia respond when August, Gigi, and Angela asked her what she loved?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the career choice that August has chosen? Why is this significant?

2. How does August describe her feelings about Sylvia when they were young?

3. Who was Jennie and how is she described in the narrative?

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

5. What is the Nation of Islam? How does it factor into the novel?

6. What is the significance of the quote that opens the novel?

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

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

9. What does August say about the children of Biafra in 1968?

10. What did August think about Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi when she first saw them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss the character of Sylvia in Another Brooklyn. When and where did August meet Sylvia? What were Sylvia's ambitions in life? Did she achieve those ambitions? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss August's mother in Another Brooklyn. When did August last see her mother? What led August's father to take August and her brother away from August's mother? What happened to August's mother after this?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the plot structure of Another Brooklyn. What is the inciting event in the narrative? Where does the climax occur? What does the reader learn in the falling action and denouement of the narrative?

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