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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. At the beginning of Part One, Do Now: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up, the narrator lists the responses the girls give to this question.
(a) A pediatrician.
(b) An astronaut.
(c) The banker her mom cleans for. Rihanna.
(d) What is NOT one of the responses?

5. The brown girls show the white boys their neighborhoods. How do the brown boys react?
(a) They are friendly to the white boys and welcome them to the neighborhood.
(b) They threaten to beat up the white boys.
(c) They jump the white boys.
(d) They either ignore the white boys and talk to the girls or they call out insults to the boys.

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

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

8. Why do the girls not think about what their parents would do to them if they were caught sneaking out to parties and having premarital sex?
(a) They are too busy thinking about boys.
(b) Their parents do not care about them.
(c) Their parents are too tired from long days of work to notice.
(d) They believe they are too cunning to get caught.

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

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

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

12. 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.

13. When the narrator and her friends play dress-up in a store with beautiful clothes, what does a store clerk think is happening?
(a) They are doing drugs.
(b) They are trying on gowns for prom.
(c) They are trying to steal.
(d) They are adding graffiti to the merchandise.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Part One, Girls Like You, the narrator tells of what form of public transportation she and her friends take to get to the mall?

3. What do the girls notice as they take notes on white philosophers and read Shakespeare?

4. Where do the girls meet after midnight to get reassurance, they made a good choice to attend high school outside of Queens?

5. In Part One, Last Day, what is the reason the narrator gives for all the rigorous testing and high school applications?

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