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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 August's mother sleep with under her pillow as stated at the start of Chapter 4?

2. What did August and her brother feed the neighboring children in her apartment building at the end of Chapter 6?

3. How did August's father die?

4. At the start of Chapter 2, what year does the narrative shift to?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does August say about the music of her childhood in Chapter 1?

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

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

7. Who was Clyde and why is he significant in the novel?

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

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

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

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 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

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?

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