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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. When did August visit her father in New York City (5)?

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

4. Who originally owned the land where Augusts's family lived in Tennessee?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did August think that her mother would come to her in Brooklyn while growing up?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of friendship in Another Brooklyn. Who are the friends that August came to care about in her youth? What happened to these friendships? What statement do you think the author is making regarding friendship?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss the character of Sylvia in Another Brooklyn. When and where did August meet Sylvia? What were Sylvia's ambitions in life? Did she achieve those ambitions? Why or why not?

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