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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part One, Other Boys, what boys does the narrator describe falling for?
(a) Boys with red hair and fair freckled skin.
(b) Boys with dark wavy hair and ebony skin.
(c) Boys with curly brown hair and caramel skin.
(d) Boys with golden blonde hair and white creamy skin.

2. What does a white woman say when she sees the brown boy and girl?
(a) Who do they think they are?
(b) I hope they won't rob me.
(c) Thank God they stick to their own kind.
(d) Why won't they stay on their own side of the park?

3. What do the girls mostly do at the mall?
(a) Eat junk food.
(b) Window shop.
(c) Try out perfumes.
(d) Chase each other around.

4. What are the ethnicities the narrator names in Musical Chairs?
(a) Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Buddhist, and Jewish.
(b) Pakistani, Guyanese, Haitian, Ivory Coast, Filipino, and Chinese.
(c) Kenyan, American, Irish, Egyptian, Japanese, and Mongolian.
(d) Swedish, Israeli, Korean, South African, Indigenous Peoples, and Indian.

5. How many days before school starts the girls who have chosen to leave Queens begin to question their choices?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

6. What do the girls notice as they take notes on white philosophers and read Shakespeare?
(a) They never read about anyone that looks like them.
(b) They do not like these famous white people.
(c) They have never read any of this before.
(d) They do not trust their white teachers.

7. What is NOT a name the brown girls call their teachers while in the lunchroom?
(a) Idiot.
(b) Dumbass.
(c) Dumb and blind.
(d) Old-lady bitch.

8. Where do the girls meet after midnight to get reassurance, they made a good choice to attend high school outside of Queens?
(a) Dunkin’ Donuts.
(b) The local park.
(c) 7-eleven.
(d) The narrator’s home.

9. In Part One, Optical Illusions, what do the girls do with the stolen makeup?
(a) They cover their faces in it to see what they would look like if they had white skin.
(b) They sell it on the street to earn extra cash.
(c) They follow a makeup tutorial to try to look like their favorite celebrities.
(d) They give it to their mothers as a birthday gift.

10. How does the narrator describe the songs that vocal students memorize?
(a) Moments from the past.
(b) The languages of love.
(c) The language of our colonizers.
(d) Beautiful and challenging.

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

12. Why do the girls run back home to their family parties from the wealthier part of the neighborhood?
(a) There is life and laughter there.
(b) They almost get lost.
(c) They are threatened.
(d) They are bored.

13. In Our Mothers Speak, what is NOT an example given by the narrator of the advice and wisdom given out by brown mothers?
(a) Get married.
(b) Move back to the motherland.
(c) Have children.
(d) Go to school.

14. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?
(a) They try to forget their family secrets.
(b) They pretend they do not know anything about their families.
(c) They often blackmail each other to keep each other quiet.
(d) They lie and say their immediate family members are the only ones who live in their homes.

15. In Part 2, Western Epistemology, the narrator speaks of sitting in high school classrooms with what?
(a) Beautiful landscaping.
(b) Delicious lunches.
(c) Metal detectors.
(d) Barbed wire fences.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One, Family Parties, what is a comment NOT given by the narrator regarding the girls’ aunts?

2. What does the narrator say about the native tongues of the girls in “Art”?

3. What is the reason the narrator gives for why the brown girls would never date a brown boy?

4. When the girls meet the white boys’ parents, they suddenly become what?

5. When the girls give a rude response or laugh to the white boys’ compliments, how do the boys NOT react?

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