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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Some brown boys call the girls by their real names rather than their American names. How do the girls react?
(a) They work hard to walk away from them.
(b) They shout insults at them.
(c) They laugh at them.
(d) They call the boys by their real names.

2. How many commandments are listed in Our Mothers’ Commandments?
(a) 7.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

3. What is NOT one of the Commandments described in Our Mothers’ Commandments?
(a) You shall not be a dumb girl.
(b) You shall not be a troublesome girl.
(c) You shall not be a loud girl with many opinions.
(d) You shall not be an ugly girl.

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

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

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

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

8. 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) The banker her mom cleans for. Rihanna.
(c) What is NOT one of the responses?
(d) An astronaut.

9. 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) He and his friends are racists and their parents would be upset if they got in a fight at school.
(c) They find the boy's actions funny.
(d) They do not want to be punished by the dean.

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

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

12. In Night, how do the brown girls pay for expensive clothes?
(a) They do not pay for their clothes, as they receive them as gifts, or they steal them.
(b) Selling their bodies.
(c) Stealing from their parents’ pocketbooks and wallets.
(d) Babysitting and tutoring money.

13. When the white boys try to be gently intimate, how do the girls NOT react?
(a) Some girls give in to the closeness.
(b) Some girls reject the closeness.
(c) Some girls realize they want the closeness, and this boy is who she has been searching for her whole life.
(d) Some girls realize they want the closeness, and anyone will do.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the girls feel the urge to leave the large family parties?

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

3. How many hours per week do the art students spend in art classes?

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

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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