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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do the girls feel now that they have a white boy attracted to them?
(a) Confused about what to do now.
(b) Their futures are secure.
(c) Both that they have somehow managed to have something precious and feel dirty in their own skin.
(d) They are beautiful and lucky.

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

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

5. How many commandments are listed in Our Mothers’ Commandments?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 7.

6. In Part One, Girls Like You, the narrator tells of what form of public transportation she and her friends take to get to the mall?
(a) Subways.
(b) Taxis.
(c) Buses.
(d) Ferries.

7. How do the girls feel when their parents are confused about what they are learning in school?
(a) A sense of power, meanness, and recklessness.
(b) A sense of loss.
(c) Sadness and worry.
(d) Fear that their parents will understand them less and less.

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

9. 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) Ash.
(b) 7-eleven root beer.
(c) Peanut butter.
(d) Sand at Rockaway Beach.

10. When the girls meet the white boys’ parents, they suddenly become what?
(a) A threat to the white family’s security.
(b) Ambassadors of Third World Nations.
(c) Second class citizens.
(d) A celebrity.

11. In Night, how do the brown girls pay for expensive clothes?
(a) Stealing from their parents’ pocketbooks and wallets.
(b) They do not pay for their clothes, as they receive them as gifts, or they steal them.
(c) Babysitting and tutoring money.
(d) Selling their bodies.

12. Often the brown mothers ask if the girls are listening, as they seem to be ignoring their mothers. What are the girls thinking but not saying?
(a) They hate their mothers.
(b) They disagree with their mothers.
(c) They are thinking about the homework they need to finish.
(d) They agree with their mothers but do not want to admit it.

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

14. How do the girls respond when the girls receive compliments from the Italian boys on their stoops?
(a) Who are you?
(b) What made you nice?
(c) They laugh at the boys.
(d) When did we become beautiful?

15. Why do the girls feel the urge to leave the large family parties?
(a) They are overheated.
(b) They are bored.
(c) For a breath of fresh air.
(d) To play in the backyard.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One, Last Day, what is the reason the narrator gives for all the rigorous testing and high school applications?

2. What does the narrator say the other boys are?

3. What does the narrator NOT say happens to the girls whose parents catch them sneaking out?

4. Why do the family and friends who come to stay with the girls and their families leave for other cities?

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

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