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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 narrative perspective is Another Brooklyn related?
2. As indicated in Chapter 4, what did August say her father had to do, because they had to live without August's mother?
3. What is the origin of August's birth name?
4. Who originally owned the land where Augusts's family lived in Tennessee?
5. What did August and her brother feed the neighboring children in her apartment building at the end of Chapter 6?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does August say in Chapter 4, "We didn't understand the kind of poverty we lived in" (42)?
2. What did Gigi want to be when she grew up? Why?
3. What does August say about the children of Biafra in 1968?
4. What does the jar of ashes represent in the novel?
5. What did Gigi's mother tell her about her appearance when she was six?
6. What did SweetGrove represent to August when she was growing up?
7. What did Angela want to be when she grew up? Why?
8. Why did Gigi warn her friends not to sing in their churches' choirs?
9. How is the novel structured? Is the story related in a linear fashion or nonlinear? Why is this important?
10. Who was Jennie and how is she described in the narrative?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
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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