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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was portrayed as "starving" at the start of Chapter 6?
(a) The drug addicts in Chicago.
(b) The children of Biafra.
(c) The minorities in Brooklyn.
(d) The refugees of Libya.

2. What is the name of the area where August and her family lived before moving to Brooklyn?
(a) The Bronx.
(b) Tennessee Swamp.
(c) BitterFields.
(d) SweetGrove.

3. At the start of the novel, what style of music does the narrator say was "trying to tell our [the girls'] story" (2) despite the fact that it never quite got them?
(a) Pop.
(b) Jazz.
(c) The Blues.
(d) Top 40.

4. What did August want, do, and/or think, when she first saw Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi as a child in Brooklyn?
(a) August wanted to be a part of who they were.
(b) August hated them because she had no friends.
(c) August yelled at the girls for being stuck-up.
(d) August had a natural distaste for the girls.

5. As divulged in Chapter 5, what profession did Gigi want to become when she got older?
(a) Gigi wanted to be an anthropologist.
(b) Gigi wanted to become an actress.
(c) Gigi longed to be a lawyer.
(d) Gigi wanted to be a banker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What trains did August and her family take on their Saturday trips to Coney Island?

2. In what condition did August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi find the man who raped Gigi in Chapter 4?

3. What major event happened to August's brother in Chapter 2?

4. How did August, Sylvia, and Angela respond to Gigi's rape?

5. What narrative perspective is Another Brooklyn related?

(see the answer key)

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