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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Often the brown mothers ask if the girls are listening, as they seem to be ignoring their mothers. What are the girls thinking but not saying?
(a) They are thinking about the homework they need to finish.
(b) They disagree with their mothers.
(c) They hate their mothers.
(d) They agree with their mothers but do not want to admit it.

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

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

4. What does the narrator NOT say happens to the girls whose parents catch them sneaking out?
(a) Some are ignored.
(b) Some are beaten.
(c) Some are given up for adoption.
(d) Some are threatened to be sent back to the motherland.

5. How do some girls convince themselves that boys of a different race and color are unworthy?
(a) The girls start to notice how ugly the boys are.
(b) The girls start to notice how they speak English.
(c) The girls start to notice the boys’ dirty shoes and messy hair.
(d) The girls start to notice who the boys’ friends are.

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

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

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

9. 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 have never read any of this before.
(c) They do not like these famous white people.
(d) They never read about anyone that looks like them.

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

11. What do the girls mostly do at the mall?
(a) Window shop.
(b) Try out perfumes.
(c) Chase each other around.
(d) Eat junk food.

12. When white boys call the brown girls beautiful, how do the girls NOT react, according to the narrator?
(a) Some believe it as they have been dying for this their entire lives.
(b) Some believe it because they know their own worth.
(c) Some openly laugh at the boys.
(d) Some smile but do not believe them.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the girls give up when family and friends from their native lands come to stay?

2. The narrator tells of the training bras the girls wear. From whom did they learn about bras?

3. In Part One, Musical Chairs, the narrator tells of how the teachers are notorious for what?

4. What does the narrator say the other boys are?

5. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?

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