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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part Three, Welcome to Mars, what is compared to Mars?
(a) The universities some of the girls attend.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) The dregs of Queens.
(d) Men.

2. How do friends react when the girls call and say they are taking a trip to see the Motherland?
(a) They are surprised.
(b) Some friends are confused, while others give words of encouragement.
(c) They find it ridiculously funny.
(d) They are worried.

3. Overall, how do the girls manage in the Motherland?
(a) They manage well, because they are from the Motherland.
(b) They do everything wrong.
(c) They manage as well as any American.
(d) They manage surprisingly well.

4. In Amnesia, the girls struggle to get out of bed in the morning, as they realize what?
(a) They must go to work.
(b) They forgot to buy coffee.
(c) They have no friends.
(d) Everyone they now interact with daily is white.

5. Why did the brown girls sneak into The Flea as young girls?
(a) They were unable to pay the six-dollar entrance fee.
(b) They liked the excitement of sneaking in.
(c) They were too young to enter alone.
(d) They were not liked by the owner.

6. What makes the girls who have stayed angry?
(a) The pity they see in their friends’ eyes.
(b) The love they see in their friends' eyes.
(c) The anger they see in their friends' eyes.
(d) The jealousy they see in their friends' eyes.

7. What do the girls now know about The Flea, after visiting Motherlands?
(a) It sells cheaper versions of what can be found in the Motherlands.
(b) It carries more goods than the Motherlands.
(c) It is very different from the Motherland markets.
(d) It was similar to markets in their Motherlands.

8. The narrator says multiple times that the boys do not cry but then, in parentheses, says what?
(a) They scream.
(b) They weep.
(c) They breathe.
(d) They are silent.

9. Although the girls feel the urge to run away from college, why do they stay?
(a) They know it will get better.
(b) They are embarrassed to leave.
(c) They have nowhere else to go.
(d) They are good girls and the ones who have succeeded in achieving the American Dream.

10. Many girls do not know if or when they will be ready to have children but know that to admit this uncertainty would leave them how?
(a) Unfulfilled.
(b) Vulnerable.
(c) Angry.
(d) Worried.

11. In Patriotic, what is the main reason given for why the brown girls debate becoming mothers?
(a) They do not have time to have children.
(b) The world is a mess.
(c) They fear the pain.
(d) They have not found suitable fathers for their future children.

12. As the brown girls see first-hand the devastation caused by the colonizers, what do they realize?
(a) Whether they like it or not, they lay claim to both.
(b) They are the colonizers.
(c) They can never return to America.
(d) They are to blame.

13. The girls hop into their cars and drive away from their posh Manhattan neighborhoods, through the residential and cultural streets of Brooklyn, and finally end up where?
(a) Long Island.
(b) The dregs of Queens.
(c) At the Atlantic Ocean.
(d) Coney Island.

14. What do the girls say about the brothers who manage to escape?
(a) They find love.
(b) They find their voices.
(c) They should come home.
(d) They are still the same.

15. Why do some of the brothers struggle to find work, according to the author?
(a) They are brown.
(b) They do not know how to act in public.
(c) They are judged by their records.
(d) They have poor educations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the girls feel awkward when they hug each other?

2. According to the narrator, how is making art a prison sentence?

3. What does the narrator call the girls who find solace in the arts and switch their majors to art?

4. What do the letters brought back from the Motherland reveal about the brown girls’ parents?

5. In Haunting, the girls follow Trish but end up where?

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