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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What narrative perspective is Another Brooklyn related?
(a) Second person.
(b) First person.
(c) Third person limited.
(d) Third person omniscient.

2. How long has it been since August's childhood when she describes her father's funeral?
(a) 6 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 10 years.

3. How did August, Sylvia, and Angela respond to Gigi's rape?
(a) August, Sylvia, and Angela insisted that Gigi immediately tell her mother.
(b) August, Sylvia, and Angela promised to find the man and kill him.
(c) August, Sylvia, and Angela told Gigi that she could stay at Sylvia's house to get away from him.
(d) August, Sylvia, and Angela made a plan to run away with Gigi.

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

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 admitted that the pastor took her into a back room and raped her.
(c) Gigi confessed that the pastor came up behind her and rubbed against her inappropriately.
(d) Gigi declared that the pastor was stealing money from the congregation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many sisters did Sylvia have according to August in Chapter 9?

2. When August was a child, what statement did she always tell her brother when he asked about their mother?

3. After leaving her brother and returning to their father's apartment after the funeral, how did August feel?

4. What is the first thing Jerome said to August?

5. What did August wish she had said to Angela after Angela disappeared?

(see the answer key)

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