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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 the woman who lived below August's apartment look like?

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

3. What did the girls say to boys who called August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela's names in Chapter 7?

4. Which friend of August's had similar hands to her mother, as mentioned in Chapter 4?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the career choice that August has chosen? Why is this significant?

3. What did Angela want to be when she grew up? Why?

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

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

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

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

8. What did Gigi's mother tell her about her appearance when she was six?

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

10. Why did August think that her mother would come to her in Brooklyn while 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

Discuss the themes of family and community in Another Brooklyn. How did her community serve August growing up? How did her family serve her? Do you think that the communities presented in the novel appear supportive or negative? Why?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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