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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. What was the color of the pullout sofa in August's childhood apartment?

2. When August was a child, what statement did she always tell her brother when he asked about their mother?

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

4. What was the name of the woman who braided August's hair as indicated in the latter part of Chapter 4?

5. What is the name of the area where August and her family lived before moving to Brooklyn?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Miss Dora and how is she described in the narrative?

2. How is Coney Island described in Chapter 4?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What are the circumstances of August's brother in the most-recent timeline in the novel?

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

10. What did SweetGrove represent to August when she was growing up?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify and discuss three examples of irony in Another Brooklyn. What are examples of dramatic irony in the novel? What situational irony is explored? How is verbal irony employed?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and analyze the characters of August's father and brother. Why do you think the author does not name these characters? What are August's relationships like with each of these characters? What happens to each of these characters in the course of the story?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of friendship in Another Brooklyn. Who are the friends that August came to care about in her youth? What happened to these friendships? What statement do you think the author is making regarding friendship?

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