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Another Brooklyn
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Chapters 1-3
1. What is August’s profession?
A) anthropologist
B) psychologist
C) jazz singer
D) social worker
2. What does Sylvia ask August?
A) where she is from
B) whether she has a mother
C) what happened to her brother
D) where she got her clothes
Chapters 4-6
3. What happened to Clyde?
A) He stole money from August’s father.
B) He was drafted and killed.
C) He attacked August’s mother.
D) He decided to start his own farm.
4. Who is the center of August’s group of friends?
A) August
B) Angela
C) Sylvia
D) Gigi
Chapters 7-9
5. How do the girls react to the changes adolescence brings?
A) They become closer and protect each other.
B) They grow jealous of one another.
C) They begin to lose interest in each other.
D) They long to return to their past selves.
6. How does August respond to the arrival of Sister Loretta?
A) She rebels against her presence.
B) She forgets her real mother.
C) She plans to run away.
D) She becomes attached to her.
Chapters 10-12
7.Whose experience with her mother most closely matches August’s?
A) Sylvia
B) Sister Loretta
C) Gigi
D) Angela
8. What does August gradually remember?
A) what happened to Clyde
B) what happened to her mother
C) what happened to her father
D) what happened to her brother
Chapters 13-16
9. What happens to Gigi?
A) She receives a standing ovation at her performance.
B) She is humiliated and abandoned by her friends.
C) She betrays August by sleeping with Jerome.
D) She withdraws from the group to pursue her studies.
10. What do August’s lovers accuse her of?
A) being emotionally withdrawn
B) attaching too much
C) intentionally ignoring the truth
D) being a bad friend
Answers
1. A (Chapter 1)
2. B (Chapter 3)
3. B (Chapter 4)
4. C (Chapter 5)
5. A (Chapter 7)
6. D (Chapter 8)
7. D (Chapter 12)
8. B (Chapter 12)
9. B (Chapter 14)
10. A (Chapter 15)
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