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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. How did August learn about french kissing?

2. What did Jerome do to August's body for the first time in Chapter 12?

3. Why did August tell Sylvia about Jerome in Chapter 9?

4. What did Gigi audition for at the start of Chapter 10?

5. Who were the shop owners on Broadway that lived in fancy houses?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does August describe Gigi's mother in Chapter 10?

5. What did Sister Loretta bring to August's household?

6. To whom does August compare Jennie's children in Chapter 12?

7. What was Sylvia's family like? Did she have siblings?

8. What does "orba" mean? Why is this word defined in the novel?

9. What did Sylvia's father say about August's father in Chapter 11?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss the character of Gigi in Another Brooklyn. Where and when did August meet Gigi? What did Gigi want to be when she grew up? How and why did Gigi die?

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

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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