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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How old are the girls by “Art”?
(a) 15.
(b) 14.
(c) 17.
(d) 18.

4. What do the girls end up throwing at the boys’ head who cursed at Trish?
(a) Broccoli.
(b) Carrots.
(c) A slice of pizza.
(d) A chicken patty.

5. What does the narrator say about the native tongues of the girls in “Art”?
(a) They draw attention to the girls and their art.
(b) They have grown increasingly more important.
(c) They have become half-remembered melodies.
(d) They help the girls in expressing themselves as artists.

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

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

8. When the white boys try to be gently intimate, how do the girls NOT react?
(a) Some girls realize they want the closeness, and this boy is who she has been searching for her whole life.
(b) Some girls realize they want the closeness, and anyone will do.
(c) Some girls reject the closeness.
(d) Some girls give in to the closeness.

9. In Your Own Kind, the brown girls’ parents say they are not what?
(a) Racist.
(b) Religious.
(c) Patriotic.
(d) Shallow.

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

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

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

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

14. 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.

15. In Art the girls are now specializing in various art forms. Which of the following is something many of them have NOT done?
(a) Taken private art lessons with local but famous artists.
(b) Sung in church choirs.
(c) Taken free after-school art lessons.
(d) Taken ballet classes at the Y.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the girls feel the urge to leave the large family parties?

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

3. Why do the girls run back home to their family parties from the wealthier part of the neighborhood?

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

5. In Territory, what is NOT a reason given by the narrator for why the brown girls tire of Manhattan?

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