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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do those who have stayed say is the difference between the two types of girls?
(a) Those who have left can never come back.
(b) Those who have left care only about themselves.
(c) Those who have stayed will never be alone.
(d) Those who have stayed have never become strangers.

2. 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.

3. In Jenny, how do some of the brown girls feel about Jenny?
(a) They hate her.
(b) They are jealous of her.
(c) They feel sorry for her.
(d) They are in love with her.

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

5. The girls who are happy being single with no children shock their parents, as being a parent is what?
(a) A natural part of life.
(b) Expected.
(c) One of the first steps to being an adult.
(d) Practically patriotic.

6. What city were some Queens’ residents worried their community would mimic, if the big tech company came to their town?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Miami.

7. 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) Dancing half-dressed on a table.
(b) Snorting what is assumed to be cocaine.
(c) Cleaning up after the other drunk kids.
(d) Drinking too much.

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

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

10. In Welcome to Mars, how do the girls feel around the elite?
(a) Right at home.
(b) Out of place.
(c) Uninterested.
(d) Superior.

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

12. How do some of the brothers have a change of heart in The Lucky Ones?
(a) They apologize to their families.
(b) They volunteer at halfway houses.
(c) They help support their sisters.
(d) They return or turn to religion.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Our Brothers, why do the brothers receive prison sentences?

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

3. What do some of the brothers do who struggle to find work?

4. What is NOT a legacy of the brown girls listed by the narrator?

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

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