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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While listening to a church sermon in Chapter 2, what question did August pose to God?
(a) "Why did God only love the white people?" (23).
(b) "Do you even exist? If so, why are you so unfair?" (21).
(c) "What does God do with his daughters?" (23).
(d) "How could God take away my mother?" (22).

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

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

4. What major event happened to August's brother in Chapter 2?
(a) August's brother got severely beaten by their father.
(b) August's brother left to live with their mother.
(c) August's brother ran away, but their father found him hiding under a bridge.
(d) August's brother cut his forearm on the broken glass of the window.

5. As noticed in Chapter 3, what was one of the first things August spotted about Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi at school?
(a) The expensive and beautiful clothes they wore.
(b) The sharp edges of their collarbones.
(c) The way they could just look at each other without saying a word, but understood one another anyway.
(d) The tiny bones at the back of their necks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was August's brother's wife's name in the most-recent timeline?

2. 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?

3. What was the name of the ice cream truck August and her brother saw through their apartment window?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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