View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 7, what was "telling some part of our [August, Sylvia, Gigi, and Angela] story" (69)?

2. In Chapter 1, what did August's brother ask her after their father's funeral (4)?

3. As referenced in Chapter 1, when August was 15, where did her father send her for the summer?

4. What was the color of the pullout sofa in August's childhood apartment?

5. How did August, Sylvia, and Angela respond to Gigi's rape?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Clyde and why is he significant in the novel?

2. How is the novel structured? Is the story related in a linear fashion or nonlinear? Why is this important?

3. Who was Jennie and how is she described in the narrative?

4. What did SweetGrove represent to August when she was growing up?

5. What did August think about Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi when she first saw them?

6. Why did Gigi warn her friends not to sing in their churches' choirs?

7. What led to August's father granting August and her brother more freedom after they had moved to Brooklyn?

8. What is the significance of the quote that opens the novel?

9. What did Gigi's mother tell her about her appearance when she was six?

10. What tragic event befell Gigi when she was 12?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify and discuss three examples of irony in Another Brooklyn. What are examples of dramatic irony in the novel? What situational irony is explored? How is verbal irony employed?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the plot structure of Another Brooklyn. What is the inciting event in the narrative? Where does the climax occur? What does the reader learn in the falling action and denouement of the narrative?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the setting of SweetGrove in Another Brooklyn. Why is this setting important to the novel? How does this setting contrast with the setting of Brooklyn? What does SweetGrove symbolize in the story?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 820 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample