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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 give in to the closeness.
(d) Some girls reject the closeness.

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

3. In Part One, Brown Boys, the narrator tells the reader they would stare at the brown boys and think what?
(a) How much they looked like their own family members and neighbors.
(b) How they hoped the brown boys would notice them.
(c) How ignorant they were.
(d) How cute they were.

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

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

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

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

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

9. What two groups does the narrator say eats the same lunch?
(a) The students at her school and inmates in prisons.
(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 the President of the United States.

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

11. 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 give their babysitting money to their parents.
(c) They tiptoe around the house so as not to disturb their exhausted fathers.
(d) They know how to cross the dangerous main road safely.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. Some brown boys call the girls by their real names rather than their American names. How do the girls react?

5. 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?

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