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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two groups does the narrator say eats the same lunch?
(a) The students at her school and the President of the United States.
(b) The students and teachers at her school.
(c) The students at her school and those in homeless shelters.
(d) The students at her school and inmates in prisons.

2. 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.

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

4. Why do the girls’ parents feel it is best that the girls date boys like them?
(a) They do not want to be ostracized.
(b) The others are unfaithful and too different.
(c) Relationships with others will never last.
(d) They do not want the community to talk about them behind their backs.

5. When white boys call the brown girls beautiful, how do the girls NOT react, according to the narrator?
(a) Some smile but do not believe them.
(b) Some believe it as they have been dying for this their entire lives.
(c) Some believe it because they know their own worth.
(d) Some openly laugh at the boys.

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

7. In Part One, Duties, what is NOT an example of how the narrator and her ten-year-old friends are good girls?
(a) They help younger siblings with homework.
(b) They know how to cross the dangerous main road safely.
(c) They give their babysitting money to their parents.
(d) They tiptoe around the house so as not to disturb their exhausted fathers.

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

9. In Part One, Lunchroom, who is cursing at Trish?
(a) John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt.
(b) Joseph Justin O’Brien.
(c) Joey Gemelli.
(d) Marco Varisco.

10. Regarding the commandment for the girls to not be wayward, what is also not allowed to be discussed?
(a) What it is like being pregnant.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Birth control options.
(d) Dating.

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

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

13. What does the narrator say the other boys are?
(a) Absolute perfection.
(b) Practically celebrities.
(c) Wanna-bees.
(d) All-American boys.

14. When the girls give a rude response or laugh to the white boys’ compliments, how do the boys NOT react?
(a) Some do not notice at all.
(b) Some seem confused and back off.
(c) Some hesitate before joining in.
(d) Some look at the girls as if seeing them for the first time.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the ethnicities the narrator names in Musical Chairs?

2. What do the girls mostly do at the mall?

3. When brown boys notice the girls’ bodies, what do the girls mistakenly think?

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

5. How does Part One, Bras begin?

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