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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first thing Sylvia asked August when they met?
(a) "Why do you stare at us like that? What are you looking for?" (36).
(b) "Why do you look at us that way? We don't like you" (35).
(c) "Do you want to have lunch with us. I have an extra sandwich" (33).
(d) "What's your name? I've never seen you before" (36).

2. In Chapter 1, while meeting with therapist, Sister Sonja, as a teenager for the first time, how did August begin the session?
(a) "I hope my mother is alive..." (15).
(b) "I merely want to see her..." (16).
(c) "She will never come back..." (12).
(d) "I was waiting for my mother..." (15).

3. What did August's father do to the apartment window she and her brother always peered through?
(a) August's father put a dark sheet over it and told them to stop looking out of it.
(b) August's father broke the window and yelled at August and her brother.
(c) August's father took a knife and cut the top of the window frame.
(d) August's father replaced it with a new window that made it easier for August and her brother to see through.

4. What was the name of the ice cream truck August and her brother saw through their apartment window?
(a) Misses Chocolate.
(b) Mister Ice Cream.
(c) Misses Creamery Truck.
(d) Mister Softee.

5. How did August's father die?
(a) Lung cancer.
(b) Liver disease.
(c) Natural causes.
(d) Heart attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Quote that precedes the narrative, what will you find when you turn right?

2. How much older is August than her brother?

3. What does the narrator claim is the most tragic thing about life (1)?

4. What did August want, do, and/or think, when she first saw Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi as a child in Brooklyn?

5. What does August say saved her brother from feeling "halfway whole" (3)?

(see the answer key)

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