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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Jerome do to August that was the first sign of their relationship?
(a) Jerome left August a note at her apartment door.
(b) Jerome kissed August.
(c) Jerome winked at August.
(d) Jerome waved at August on the street.

3. What happened during the summer at the start of Chapter 11?
(a) The lights went out in Brooklyn.
(b) The heat kept everyone inside.
(c) Men and boys were everywhere.
(d) The girls stopped talking.

4. What temperature did it raise the summer August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela had boyfriends? (123-124).
(a) 89 degrees.
(b) Over 99 degrees.
(c) Over 100 degrees.
(d) 99 degrees.

5. What was August's father's response in reference to Sylvia's father on Page 115?
(a) "August, Sylvia is not a good friend; her father has too much influence over her."
(b) "He is a horrible father. You will not stay there."
(c) "Sylvia has a conceited father and I do not like him."
(d) "He's a good man. He has his God. A man needs his God."

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sister Loretta cook for the family when she arrived at August's family apartment?

2. What did August tell her mother at the end of Chapter 10?

3. What did August and her brother believe happened to their father's fingers well into their teens?

4. At the start of Chapter 11, how old did the girls turn?

5. What did Angela say after a dead woman was found in Brooklyn during the winter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Jennie's children? Why?

2. What does "gentrification" mean and how does it apply in the novel?

3. What was the Summer Food Service Program?

4. What did Sylvia's father say about August's father in Chapter 11?

5. What does August say about her Muslim beliefs in Chapter 9?

6. What did Sylvia's father do to her boyfriend in Chapter 13? Why?

7. How did August and her friends explore sexuality in Chapter 11?

8. What does August remember of Clyde?

9. What is the significance of the urn described in Chapter 10?

10. What does "orba" mean? Why is this word defined in the novel?

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