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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did August's father die?

2. As noticed in Chapter 3, what was one of the first things August spotted about Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi at school?

3. What did the August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi decide to do to protect Gigi after she was sexually assaulted?

4. What is the name of the area where August and her family lived before moving to Brooklyn?

5. According to the Quote that precedes the narrative, what will you find when you turn right?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways did August and her friends protect themselves from the streets when they were adolescents?

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

3. What did August and her friends think of one another before they met?

4. Why did August think that her mother would come to her in Brooklyn while growing up?

5. What is the Nation of Islam? How does it factor into the novel?

6. What does August say about the children of Biafra in 1968?

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

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

9. What is the career choice that August has chosen? Why is this significant?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the setting of Brooklyn in the novel. Where in Brooklyn did August grow up? How is the neighborhood described? Why is this setting important to the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and analyze the characters of August's father and brother. Why do you think the author does not name these characters? What are August's relationships like with each of these characters? What happens to each of these characters in the course of the story?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of religion in Another Brooklyn. What religions are explored in the novel? How are they compared with one another? What is August's personal connection to religion?

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