1. The girls tell happy stories of their youth with Trish, but one girl thinks back on the time she caught Trish doing what at a party?
(a) Cleaning up after the other drunk kids.
(b) Snorting what is assumed to be cocaine.
(c) Dancing half-dressed on a table.
(d) Drinking too much.

2. Although the girls feel the urge to run away from college, why do they stay?
(a) They are good girls and the ones who have succeeded in achieving the American Dream.
(b) They are embarrassed to leave.
(c) They have nowhere else to go.
(d) They know it will get better.

3. How are the brown boys like lightning, according to the narrator?
(a) They are both beautiful and dangerous.
(b) They are both bright and shining.
(c) They are both powerful and dangerous.
(d) They are both scary and dangerous.

4. What does the narrator say is the brown girls’ privilege?
(a) Being American.
(b) Education.
(c) Having weak American stomachs.
(d) Speaking English.

5. In Great Expectations, the narrator describes the relationship between the brown girls and who?
(a) Their sisters.
(b) Their neighbors.
(c) Their brothers.
(d) Their fathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the white parents consider the brown girls and their families the good, hardworking immigrants, the girls realize what about their own families?

2. The brown girls show the white boys their neighborhoods. How do the brown boys react?

3. Why do some of the brothers struggle to find work, according to the author?

4. How old are the girls by “Art”?

5. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?

(see the answer key)

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