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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. 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) Coney Island.
(b) The dregs of Queens.
(c) Long Island.
(d) At the Atlantic Ocean.

4. In Duty, what is NOT given as a way good girls suffer?
(a) Challenging classes.
(b) Studying for careers their parents chose for them.
(c) Difficult clinical rotations.
(d) Boredom from easy courses.

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

6. What do those who have left the neighborhood remember seeing in the eyes of their friends who have stayed when they mentioned their accomplishments?
(a) A flash of anger.
(b) A flash of fear.
(c) A flash of pity.
(d) A flash of jealousy.

7. How does the author describe the people on Rockaway Beach in Meanwhile, In Queens?
(a) Pale yuppies.
(b) Wealthy WASPs.
(c) Tatted hipsters.
(d) Dangerous thugs.

8. How much do the girls spend on ice cream on the redone boardwalk at Rockaway Beach?
(a) $11.
(b) $20.
(c) $2.
(d) $8.

9. Trish puts her hands on the girls’ shoulders as the girls close their eyes and does what?
(a) Hugs them.
(b) Tells them to wake up as she pushes them back over the cliff.
(c) Tells them to take care and pushes them back over the cliff.
(d) Says goodbye.

10. According to the narrator, how is making art a prison sentence?
(a) The girls are trapped in art contracts and deadlines.
(b) The girls hate themselves and the work they once loved.
(c) The girls do not know how to survive without their art.
(d) The girls know that making art is a lifelong sentence.

11. What is NOT an example of the blending of cultures given by the narrator?
(a) English Breakfast tea served with dollops of condensed milk.
(b) Traditional garb draped over western clothing.
(c) Baguettes filled with sweet, minced pork.
(d) Hospitals and schools named for those who came to uplift savage nations.

12. In Haunting, the girls follow Trish but end up where?
(a) Gasping for air in their beds.
(b) The same place they began.
(c) At the edge of a cliff.
(d) In the dregs of Queens.

13. What business does the author hint at almost came to the brown girls’ neighborhood?
(a) Walmart.
(b) Amazon.
(c) Apple.
(d) Starbucks.

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

15. What is The Flea?
(a) A mall in Ozone Park, Queens.
(b) An open-air market in Ozone Park, Queens.
(c) A restaurant in Ozone Park, Queens.
(d) A thrift store in Ozone Park, Queens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first step the girls take that leads to them taking a trip to visit the Motherland (Fatherland)?

2. The narrator then describes the Flea, affectionately nicknamed what?

3. In Hyper/Visible/In/Visible, how do the brown girls who climb up the ranks in their chosen fields feel?

4. In Ghosts, the girls meet up for the first time in a while, and do what?

5. What city were some Queens’ residents worried their community would mimic, if the big tech company came to their town?

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