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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. Why do the family and friends who come to stay with the girls and their families leave for other cities?
(a) For work.
(b) They tire of living in cramped conditions in Queens.
(c) To see more of America.
(d) They go to stay with other family members.

2. The brown girls show the white boys their neighborhoods. How do the brown boys react?
(a) They jump the white boys.
(b) They are friendly to the white boys and welcome them to the neighborhood.
(c) They either ignore the white boys and talk to the girls or they call out insults to the boys.
(d) They threaten to beat up the white boys.

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 do not consider themselves immigrants.
(b) They have never considered themselves good or hardworking.
(c) They have said the same thing.
(d) They are not good or hardworking.

4. In Your Own Kind, the brown girls’ parents say they are not what?
(a) Racist.
(b) Patriotic.
(c) Shallow.
(d) Religious.

5. At the beginning of Part One, Do Now: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up, the narrator lists the responses the girls give to this question.
(a) What is NOT one of the responses?
(b) The banker her mom cleans for. Rihanna.
(c) An astronaut.
(d) A pediatrician.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the girls feel when they wander to the wealthier part of the neighborhood?

2. What does a white woman say when she sees the brown boy and girl?

3. What do the girls mostly do at the mall?

4. How are the brown boys like lightning, according to the narrator?

5. In Great Expectations, the narrator describes the relationship between the brown girls and who?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What takes place in Night?

4. How do the girls respond when asked what they want to be when they grow up?

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

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

7. How do the girls feel when family members and friends leave their homes for other cities?

8. In Part 2, Western Epistemology, why are the girls leery about being outside their school near the fence?

9. In Mothers’ Commandments, what are the Commandments listed by the narrator?

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

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