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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Hyper/Visible/In/Visible, how do the brown girls who climb up the ranks in their chosen fields feel?
(a) They will soon hit a glass ceiling.
(b) They have climbed mountains and achieved greatness.
(c) They are living lies and wearing masks of who they think others want them to be.
(d) They fear that they will be found out as fakes and unintelligent.

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

3. How do the girls feel when they see Trish’s face in their dreams?
(a) Sad.
(b) Angry.
(c) Happy.
(d) Scared.

4. 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) Angry.
(b) Vulnerable.
(c) Unfulfilled.
(d) Worried.

5. 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 have poor educations.
(d) They are judged by their records.

6. What does the narrator call the girls who find solace in the arts and switch their majors to art?
(a) Reckless.
(b) Smart.
(c) Unique.
(d) Unsure.

7. Why do the girls feel awkward when they hug each other?
(a) They know it will most likely be their last group hug.
(b) Trish is no longer there.
(c) It has been too long since they have seen each other.
(d) They no longer know each other.

8. How do the girls’ feelings change as they board the plane to the Motherland?
(a) Excitement leads to uncertainty.
(b) Bravery turns to excitement.
(c) Fear turns to bravery.
(d) Bravery leads to fear and uncertainty.

9. In Our Brothers, why do the brothers receive prison sentences?
(a) Possession and selling of illegal drugs.
(b) Drunk driving.
(c) Prostitution.
(d) Murder.

10. What do the brown girls realize about their elite classmates?
(a) Their families worked for families such as these.
(b) They are not as intelligent as the brown girls.
(c) They will most likely never have jobs.
(d) They do not have to work hard at schoolwork.

11. How does Trish die?
(a) A drug overdose.
(b) Cancer.
(c) She is murdered.
(d) In a car accident.

12. The girls tell happy stories of their youth with Trish, but one girl thinks back on the time she caught Trish doing what at a party?
(a) Snorting what is assumed to be cocaine.
(b) Drinking too much.
(c) Dancing half-dressed on a table.
(d) Cleaning up after the other drunk kids.

13. Of what do statues on campus remind the brown girls?
(a) Their white-only high school curriculum.
(b) What they will achieve by the time they graduate.
(c) Why they are working so hard at school.
(d) Their families.

14. What do some of the brothers do who struggle to find work?
(a) They return to their old ways.
(b) They go back to school.
(c) They work for relatives.
(d) They become priests, monks, and imams.

15. Why do some girls fear motherhood?
(a) They fear their parents will interfere too much.
(b) They fear they would mess up their children or would be engulfed by motherhood.
(c) They fear the pain of childbirth.
(d) They worry they cannot afford children.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Amnesia, the girls struggle to get out of bed in the morning, as they realize what?

2. 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?

3. What do the girls say about the brothers who manage to escape?

4. How do some of the brothers have a change of heart in The Lucky Ones?

5. In Part Three, Welcome to Mars, what is compared to Mars?

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