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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. In the middle of Chapter 7, what did Gigi share about the pastor at her church?

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

3. After leaving her brother and returning to their father's apartment after the funeral, how did August feel?

4. In Chapter 1, what did August's brother ask her after their father's funeral (4)?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does August describe her feelings about Sylvia when they were young?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the setting of SweetGrove in Another Brooklyn. Why is this setting important to the novel? How does this setting contrast with the setting of Brooklyn? What does SweetGrove symbolize in the story?

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

Analyze and discuss the narrative style of Another Brooklyn. Why has the author chosen to relate this novel from the perspective it is related through? Is the narrator reliable or unreliable? Why are these choices important?

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