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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part One, Brown Boys, the narrator tells the reader they would stare at the brown boys and think what?
(a) How ignorant they were.
(b) How much they looked like their own family members and neighbors.
(c) How they hoped the brown boys would notice them.
(d) How cute they were.

2. In Our Mothers Speak, what is NOT an example given by the narrator of the advice and wisdom given out by brown mothers?
(a) Have children.
(b) Get married.
(c) Move back to the motherland.
(d) Go to school.

3. When the white parents consider the brown girls and their families the good, hardworking immigrants, the girls realize what about their own families?
(a) They are not good or hardworking.
(b) They do not consider themselves immigrants.
(c) They have said the same thing.
(d) They have never considered themselves good or hardworking.

4. What are the ethnicities the narrator names in Musical Chairs?
(a) Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Buddhist, and Jewish.
(b) Pakistani, Guyanese, Haitian, Ivory Coast, Filipino, and Chinese.
(c) Kenyan, American, Irish, Egyptian, Japanese, and Mongolian.
(d) Swedish, Israeli, Korean, South African, Indigenous Peoples, and Indian.

5. Regarding the commandment for the girls to not be wayward, what is also not allowed to be discussed?
(a) Dating.
(b) What it is like being pregnant.
(c) Birth control options.
(d) Marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say about the native tongues of the girls in “Art”?

2. What do the girls notice as they take notes on white philosophers and read Shakespeare?

3. What does the narrator NOT say happens to the girls whose parents catch them sneaking out?

4. How do some girls convince themselves that boys of a different race and color are unworthy?

5. How does the narrator describe the songs that vocal students memorize?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Western Epistemology, what do the girls learn at school in honors classes?

2. Who are the guests who stay with the brown girls and their families? Why are they there?

3. How do the girls change once they begin attending the high school for the arts?

4. In Your Own Kind, what are the reasons are given for why the girls should not date outside of their own community?

5. In Everything We Ever Wanted, how do the girls feel now that white boys are attracted to them?

6. Why do the brown girls like the other boys better than the brown boys?

7. How does the narrator describe the various skin tones of the brown girls?

8. Why might the narrator repeat that the homes the girls live in are neat but hidden, peripheral?

9. How do the girls handle the situation with Joseph Justin O’Brien?

10. What does the narrator say happens to girls who are caught sneaking out or coming home late?

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