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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the girls feel about the store clerk?
(a) They are annoyed.
(b) They are frightened.
(c) They are amused.
(d) They are pissed.

2. In Part One, Musical Chairs, the narrator tells of how the teachers are notorious for what?
(a) Calling the brown girls by the wrong name.
(b) Picking on the brown girls more than the other girls.
(c) Not showing up to class on time.
(d) Not having enough chairs and desks in the classroom.

3. In Part One, Family Parties, what is a comment NOT given by the narrator regarding the girls’ aunts?
(a) The aunts would tell the girls to eat enough.
(b) The aunts would tell the girls to stay thin.
(c) The aunts would hug, squeeze, and give the girls fat, juicy kisses.
(d) The aunts would compliment the girls on their hairdo but would encourage them to go elsewhere next time.

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

5. The brown girls show the white boys their neighborhoods. How do the brown boys react?
(a) They either ignore the white boys and talk to the girls or they call out insults to the boys.
(b) They jump the white boys.
(c) They are friendly to the white boys and welcome them to the neighborhood.
(d) They threaten to beat up the white boys.

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

7. The narrator tells of the training bras the girls wear. From whom did they learn about bras?
(a) Mothers and sisters.
(b) Soap operas.
(c) Magazines and advertisements.
(d) Older friends.

8. In Everything We Ever Wanted, the girls are now how old?
(a) 15.
(b) 18.
(c) 16.
(d) 17.

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

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

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

12. What is the reason the narrator gives for why the brown girls would never date a brown boy?
(a) He is mean and rude.
(b) He is not good looking or intelligent.
(c) Although he is good looking, he does not look – you know.
(d) Although he is good looking, he is not going anywhere.

13. In Territory, what is NOT a reason given by the narrator for why the brown girls tire of Manhattan?
(a) Fake glamour.
(b) Central Park.
(c) Manhattan snobs.
(d) High prices.

14. When brown boys notice the girls’ bodies, what do the girls mistakenly think?
(a) Their beauty is their power.
(b) The boys love them.
(c) They need no other skills if they have beauty.
(d) They have met their future husbands.

15. When the white parents consider the brown girls and their families the good, hardworking immigrants, the girls realize what about their own families?
(a) They have said the same thing.
(b) They do not consider themselves immigrants.
(c) They have never considered themselves good or hardworking.
(d) They are not good or hardworking.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One, Brown Boys, the narrator tells the reader they would stare at the brown boys and think what?

2. What do the girls end up throwing at the boys’ head who cursed at Trish?

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

4. 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?

5. When white boys call the brown girls beautiful, how do the girls NOT react, according to the narrator?

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