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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) In front yards, not to be confused with actual lawns, grandmothers string laundry lines.
(b) The dregs of Queens, New York.
(c) A lonely tree grows.
(d) The ghetto of Long Island, New York.

2. In Part 2, Western Epistemology, the narrator speaks of sitting in high school classrooms with what?
(a) Beautiful landscaping.
(b) Metal detectors.
(c) Delicious lunches.
(d) Barbed wire fences.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does a white woman say when she sees the brown boy and girl?
(a) Why won't they stay on their own side of the park?
(b) Thank God they stick to their own kind.
(c) I hope they won't rob me.
(d) Who do they think they are?

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

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

12. How do some girls who listen to their parents and give up boys because they are a different race or color feel?
(a) Righteous.
(b) Powerful.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Shameful.

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

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

15. In Part One, Last Day, what is the reason the narrator gives for all the rigorous testing and high school applications?
(a) To show the students who can make it in the world and who cannot.
(b) To train the students in the competitive ways of the City That Never Sleeps. Our home.
(c) To encourage schools to be more integrated.
(d) To make some high schools increasingly better and others worse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the girls’ parents feel it is best that the girls date boys like them?

2. What is NOT one of the Commandments described in Our Mothers’ Commandments?

3. The brown girls show the white boys their neighborhoods. How do the brown boys react?

4. What does the narrator say about the native tongues of the girls in “Art”?

5. When the girls meet the white boys’ parents, they suddenly become what?

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