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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. In Chapter 9, what did August say she wanted to be when she grew up?
(a) A wife.
(b) A grown-up.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A singer.
2. Where did August look for Jennie's children faces at the start of Chapter 12?
(a) The outside of Jennie's apartment.
(b) The faces of strangers.
(c) The streets of Brooklyn.
(d) The hallways of her apartment building.
3. Why would August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela possibly get sent "Down South?"
(a) Bad behavior.
(b) Pregnancy.
(c) Skipping school.
(d) Having boyfriends.
4. How old was August when she first saw Jerome in Chapter 9?
(a) 10.
(b) 14.
(c) 9.
(d) 11.
5. What did August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela whisper back to their boyfriends when they tried to have sex with them?
(a) "Not that, not yet" (125).
(b) "Please, be gentle" (125).
(c) "We are too young" (124).
(d) "We are only girls. Wait until we are women" (126).
Short Answer Questions
1. What confession did Angela make to the girls on Page 113?
2. In Chapter 9, what did Sister Loretta call the food that August's family ate before she started coming to the apartment?
3. What was August's father's response in reference to Sylvia's father on Page 115?
4. How did August feel about the free items she received after the catastrophe that happened in her neighborhood?
5. What did every school building give out after the major event took place described in Chapter 8?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happened to Jennie's children? Why?
2. How does August describe Gigi's mother in Chapter 10?
3. How did August and her friends explore sexuality in Chapter 11?
4. How does August describe the changing perceptions of her and her friends as they began adolescence in Chapter 11?
5. Why were August and her brother forbidden from going out in the neighborhod in the summer of 1977?
6. What does August remember of Clyde?
7. What does "gentrification" mean and how does it apply in the novel?
8. What does August say about her Muslim beliefs in Chapter 9?
9. What is August's first memory of Jerome?
10. What did Sylvia's father say about August's father in Chapter 11?
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