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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 want, do, and/or think, when she first saw Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi as a child in Brooklyn?

2. Who reminded August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela of the old man who ran a sketchy shoe repair shop?

3. As noticed in Chapter 3, what was one of the first things August spotted about Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi at school?

4. As divulged in Chapter 5, what profession did Gigi want to become when she got older?

5. What magazine reminded August that her family was not as poor as others?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Coney Island described in Chapter 4?

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

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

5. What tragic event befell Gigi when she was 12?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motif of water in Another Brooklyn. What does water symbolize in the story? Where does water appear? What mood is evoked by water when it appears in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss the plot structure of Another Brooklyn. What is the inciting event in the narrative? Where does the climax occur? What does the reader learn in the falling action and denouement of the narrative?

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