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Part One

1. Brown Girls is a collection of poems that tell the story of girls from what major city?
(a) New York City.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Philadelphia.

2. Part One, Brown Girls begins with the narrator describing the area in which she and her friends live. What is a way she does NOT describe it?
(a) The ghetto of Long Island, New York.
(b) A lonely tree grows.
(c) The dregs of Queens, New York.
(d) In front yards, not to be confused with actual lawns, grandmothers string laundry lines.

3. In Part One, Brown, the narrator describes the various shades of brown of her and other brown girls. What is NOT a way she describes her and her friends’ skin tones?
(a) Sand at Rockaway Beach.
(b) 7-eleven root beer.
(c) Ash.
(d) Peanut butter.

4. What is the nickname for the central road through the narrator’s neighborhood?
(a) “Times Square.”
(b) The “Racetrack.”
(c) The “Express train.”
(d) The “Boulevard of death.”

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