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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Part One, Bras begin?
(a) With the narrator describing the ingredients common to the narrator and her friends’ kitchens and the songs they like to sing while sunbathing on backyard concrete.
(b) With the narrator describing puberty.
(c) With a description of different kinds of bras worn by various women in the community.
(d) With the girls trying on bras at a department store.

3. How do the girls feel when they wander to the wealthier part of the neighborhood?
(a) Happy.
(b) Excited.
(c) Jealous.
(d) Uncomfortable.

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

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

6. How do the girls feel when their parents are confused about what they are learning in school?
(a) A sense of loss.
(b) Fear that their parents will understand them less and less.
(c) A sense of power, meanness, and recklessness.
(d) Sadness and worry.

7. Why do the family and friends who come to stay with the girls and their families leave for other cities?
(a) They tire of living in cramped conditions in Queens.
(b) For work.
(c) To see more of America.
(d) They go to stay with other family members.

8. What do the girls give up when family and friends from their native lands come to stay?
(a) Their beauty sleep.
(b) Their beds.
(c) Their living rooms.
(d) Their kitchens.

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

10. 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 encourage schools to be more integrated.
(c) To train the students in the competitive ways of the City That Never Sleeps. Our home.
(d) To make some high schools increasingly better and others worse.

11. In Thirst, the fathers get drunk on Johnnie Walker and beer as they reminisce with friends about what?
(a) Life in the Motherland where they were teachers, doctors, and engineers.
(b) Life before they were married and had children.
(c) Life in the decades to come.
(d) Life when they first arrived in America.

12. What do the girls notice as they take notes on white philosophers and read Shakespeare?
(a) They never read about anyone that looks like them.
(b) They do not like these famous white people.
(c) They have never read any of this before.
(d) They do not trust their white teachers.

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

14. In Part One, Family Parties, what is a comment NOT given by the narrator regarding the girls’ aunts?
(a) The aunts would tell the girls to stay thin.
(b) The aunts would compliment the girls on their hairdo but would encourage them to go elsewhere next time.
(c) The aunts would hug, squeeze, and give the girls fat, juicy kisses.
(d) The aunts would tell the girls to eat enough.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a place that the narrator mentions as being in her neighborhood?

2. What do the brown girls and boys NOT notice as they cross through Prospect Park?

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

4. In Night, how do the brown girls pay for expensive clothes?

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

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