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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the ethnicities the narrator names in Musical Chairs?
(a) Swedish, Israeli, Korean, South African, Indigenous Peoples, and Indian.
(b) Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Buddhist, and Jewish.
(c) Pakistani, Guyanese, Haitian, Ivory Coast, Filipino, and Chinese.
(d) Kenyan, American, Irish, Egyptian, Japanese, and Mongolian.

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

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

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

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

7. What do the brown girls and boys NOT notice as they cross through Prospect Park?
(a) The grass grows thick with rows of flowers.
(b) White women out jogging.
(c) More police officers patrolling the streets.
(d) No trash.

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

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

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

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

12. 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 smile but do not believe them.
(c) Some believe it because they know their own worth.
(d) Some believe it as they have been dying for this their entire lives.

13. 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 ballet classes at the Y.
(b) Sung in church choirs.
(c) Taken free after-school art lessons.
(d) Taken private art lessons with local but famous artists.

14. Why do girls decide it is in their best interest to initially ignore the boy who cursed at Trish?
(a) He is a low-life not worth their time.
(b) They find the boy's actions funny.
(c) They do not want to be punished by the dean.
(d) He and his friends are racists and their parents would be upset if they got in a fight at school.

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 do not consider themselves immigrants.
(b) They have said the same thing.
(c) They have never considered themselves good or hardworking.
(d) They are not good or hardworking.

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. Brown Girls is a collection of poems that tell the story of girls from what major city?

3. In Everything We Ever Wanted, the girls are now how old?

4. How do the girls feel when their parents are confused about what they are learning in school?

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

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