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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Toward the end of Chapter 7, what did August want to say to her mother about trusting women?
(a) "Mama, these girls are beautiful. Why did you lie to me" (78)?
(b) "You were right, Mama. These girls were not to be trusted. I do need to keep them at arms' length" (76).
(c) "Mama, you are stupid for leaving us and forcing me to trust only my friends to listen to me" (75).
(d) "You were wrong, Mama. Look at us hugging. Look at us laughing. Look how we begin and end each other" (75).

2. What was the color of the pullout sofa in August's childhood apartment?
(a) Dark blue.
(b) Dark brown.
(c) Light red.
(d) Dark green.

3. As referenced in Chapter 1, when August was 15, where did her father send her for the summer?
(a) August's mother's home in Tennessee.
(b) A mosque to pray.
(c) A boarding school in New York City.
(d) A therapist, Sister Sonja.

4. Who originally owned the land where Augusts's family lived in Tennessee?
(a) Her great-great aunt.
(b) Her paternal grandmother.
(c) Her second cousin.
(d) Her maternal grandfather.

5. What was August's brother's wife's name in the most-recent timeline?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Fatima.
(c) Alafia.
(d) Sonja.

6. Which girl (August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela) was the most popular, as mentioned in Chapter 5?
(a) Sylvia.
(b) Gigi.
(c) Angela.
(d) August.

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

8. 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 wanted to be a part of who they were.
(d) August hated them because she had no friends.

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

10. What did August and her brother feed the neighboring children in her apartment building at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) Fried pork chops and fruit.
(b) Potato chips, apples, and nuts.
(c) Potatoes, colorful salads, and almonds.
(d) Ham sandwiches and popcorn.

11. At the start of Chapter 2, what year does the narrative shift to?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1973.

12. What major event happened to August's brother in Chapter 2?
(a) August's brother cut his forearm on the broken glass of the window.
(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 got severely beaten by their father.

13. What did the August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi decide to do to protect Gigi after she was sexually assaulted?
(a) August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi resolved to kill any man who approached them.
(b) August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi decided to tell the police.
(c) August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi determined that they would carry razor blades with them.
(d) August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi chose to always walk Gigi to her apartment.

14. What did the woman who lived below August's apartment look like?
(a) The woman had a long neck...and smelt like cigarette smoke.
(b) The woman never spoke to August, and always looked away when they saw each other on the stairs.
(c) The woman was scary and fat and scowled a lot.
(d) The woman was dark and reedy and wore a long, black wig.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 5, how did Sylvia respond when August, Gigi, and Angela asked her what she loved?

2. In the middle of Chapter 7, what did Gigi share about the pastor at her church?

3. How old was Gigi when she was raped by the soldier who slept in the stairwell of her building?

4. Where did August's mother's brother, Clyde, go to college? (51).

5. As divulged in Chapter 5, what profession did Gigi want to become when she got older?

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