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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 did Sylvia say about the altar boys at her church as a response to Gigi's secret about the pastor at her church?

2. What did the August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi decide to do to protect Gigi after she was sexually assaulted?

3. What did the woman who lived below August's apartment look like?

4. Who was August's "Mommy" talking to when August, her father, and her brother left Tennessee?

5. As indicated in Chapter 4, what did August say her father had to do, because they had to live without August's mother?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Gigi want to be when she grew up? Why?

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

4. What does the jar of ashes represent in the novel?

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

6. How is the novel structured? Is the story related in a linear fashion or nonlinear? Why is this important?

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

8. In what ways did August and her friends protect themselves from the streets when they were adolescents?

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

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

Analyze and discuss the character of August in Another Brooklyn. How old is August when her character is introduced? What was August's childhood like? How does August's character evolve in the course of the story?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss the narrative style of Another Brooklyn. Why has the author chosen to relate this novel from the perspective it is related through? Is the narrator reliable or unreliable? Why are these choices important?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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