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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. As the girls leave for home, what do they realize about home?
(a) It is nowhere to be found.
(b) It is not just one place.
(c) It is in the Motherland.
(d) It is in America.

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

5. In Art, what was once the thing that gave the girls a sense of peace and safety is now what, according to the narrator?
(a) Still the thing that gives them a sense of peace and safety.
(b) Their downfall.
(c) The cause of their funk.
(d) Their only love.

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

7. When the girls arrive at their destination after they flee from Manhattan, what do they realize?
(a) They made so many mistakes.
(b) They want to swim to another shore.
(c) They do not want to turn around and go back to Manhattan.
(d) They do not have the strength to return all the way back to their old neighborhood.

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

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

10. In Part Four, Those Who Leave & Those Who Stay, what do those who leave notice that those who stay never mention?
(a) Their families.
(b) Their jobs.
(c) The important and serious events.
(d) Local gossip.

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

12. What led to improvements on Rockaway Beach?
(a) More government funding.
(b) Newly-elected officials from the community.
(c) Destruction caused by a category 5 superstorm.
(d) Protests from residents.

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

14. What is the first step the girls take that leads to them taking a trip to visit the Motherland (Fatherland)?
(a) They call relatives in the Motherland who convince them to come.
(b) They curse out their bosses.
(c) They take off two weeks from work.
(d) They talk to their parents about going on a trip.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Part Six, Meanwhile, in Queens begin?

2. In Reunion, why are the brown girls so relieved to be around each other?

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

4. 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?

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

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