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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 temperature did it raise the summer August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela had boyfriends? (123-124).

2. What did Sister Loretta cook for the family when she arrived at August's family apartment?

3. What did August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela whisper back to their boyfriends when they tried to have sex with them?

4. In Chapter 12, according to August, where is "Down South?"

5. What confession did Angela make to the girls on Page 113?

Short Essay Questions

1. What lesson did Charlsetta demonstrate to August and her friends?

2. How did the images of the children of Biafra affect August?

3. What is August's first memory of Jerome?

4. What led to the alienation between Sylvia and her friends in Chapter 10?

5. What did Sylvia's father do to her boyfriend in Chapter 13? Why?

6. What is the significance of the urn described in Chapter 10?

7. What did Angela say to August during the fireworks in Chapter 11? How did August respond?

8. What does August remember of Clyde?

9. How does August describe the changing perceptions of her and her friends as they began adolescence in Chapter 11?

10. Why were August and her brother forbidden from going out in the neighborhod in the summer of 1977?

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

Identify and discuss three examples of symbolism in Another Brooklyn. What does the symbol represent? How is the symbol explored in the text? Are there any characters that serve as symbols?

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