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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is NOT a legacy of the brown girls listed by the narrator?
(a) Missionaries.
(b) Financial and personal freedom.
(c) U.S.–backed dictatorships.
(d) Bombs.

4. The successful girls are so visible they have become what?
(a) Uncomfortable.
(b) Invisible.
(c) Unusual.
(d) Unsuccessful.

5. What has taken the place of The Flea?
(a) A parking garage.
(b) A casino.
(c) A tech company.
(d) A large grocery store.

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

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

8. How does Part Six, Meanwhile, in Queens begin?
(a) The girls reminisce about the past.
(b) The girls walk to boardwalk at Rockaway Beach.
(c) There is an accident on the Boulevard of Death in Ozone Park.
(d) With a goat on the Boulevard of Death in St. Albans.

9. Those who stayed in Queens know that those who left do not care about what?
(a) Their dreams and aspirations.
(b) Being loyal to family and friends.
(c) Their careers.
(d) New York City.

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

11. How do the mothers react to the boys being given prison sentences?
(a) They beat their sons.
(b) They scream curses at their sons.
(c) They are angry and silent.
(d) They weep uncontrollably.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Welcome to Mars, how do the girls feel around the elite?

2. How do the brown girls’ classmates respond when they are asked why they chose boarding schools over local schools?

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

4. What is NOT an example given by the author as something intangible brought back to the States?

5. In Jenny, how do some of the brown girls feel about Jenny?

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