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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How do the brown girls’ classmates respond when they are asked why they chose boarding schools over local schools?
(a) They look bewildered.
(b) They laugh.
(c) They frown.
(d) They shrug.

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

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

8. 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.

9. In Part Three, Welcome to Mars, what is compared to Mars?
(a) The universities some of the girls attend.
(b) Men.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) The dregs of Queens.

10. What do the letters brought back from the Motherland reveal about the brown girls’ parents?
(a) They have been sending money back home to support loved ones.
(b) They hope to return to the Motherland someday.
(c) They have been trying to cut ties to the Motherland for years.
(d) They have been financially supported by family members in the old country.

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

12. When the narrator thinks about legacy, what does she wonder about some who attend Ivy League schools?
(a) How many are mediocre students.
(b) How many commit suicide.
(c) How many paid their way into these schools.
(d) How many do not graduate.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As the brown girls see first-hand the devastation caused by the colonizers, what do they realize?

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

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

4. How does Trish die?

5. What does the narrator say is the brown girls’ privilege?

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