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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does August say saved her brother from feeling "halfway whole" (3)?
(a) Education.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Faith.

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

3. How old was Jerome when he met August?
(a) 11.
(b) 12.
(c) 14.
(d) 16.

4. In Chapter 9, what did August say she wanted to be when she grew up?
(a) A singer.
(b) A wife.
(c) A grown-up.
(d) A teacher.

5. In the middle of Chapter 7, what did Gigi share about the pastor at her church?
(a) Gigi shared that the pastor was having an affair with her mother.
(b) Gigi declared that the pastor was stealing money from the congregation.
(c) Gigi confessed that the pastor came up behind her and rubbed against her inappropriately.
(d) Gigi admitted that the pastor took her into a back room and raped her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gigi's mother say about Gigi's skin tone?

2. When August asked about the jar in the apartment, what did her father tell her?

3. What did the woman who lived below August's apartment look like?

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

5. As mentioned in Chapter 1, what do the Hindu people do with the dead?

(see the answer key)

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