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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. Which girl (August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela) was the most popular, as mentioned in Chapter 5?

2. How does August describe her friend Sylvia when she accidentally ran into her on the train years after leaving Brooklyn?

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

4. When did August visit her father in New York City (5)?

5. How did August, Sylvia, and Angela respond to Gigi's rape?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did August and her friends think of one another before they met?

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

3. What led to August's father taking his children to Brooklyn?

4. What did Angela want to be when she grew up? Why?

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

6. Why did August think that her mother would come to her in Brooklyn while growing up?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of memory in Another Brooklyn. What characters and settings relate to this theme? How does the author use symbolism to support the theme? What statement is the author making regarding memory?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the setting of Brooklyn in the novel. Where in Brooklyn did August grow up? How is the neighborhood described? Why is this setting important to the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the themes of family and community in Another Brooklyn. How did her community serve August growing up? How did her family serve her? Do you think that the communities presented in the novel appear supportive or negative? Why?

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