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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, Duties, what is NOT an example of how the narrator and her ten-year-old friends are good girls?
(a) They know how to cross the dangerous main road safely.
(b) They tiptoe around the house so as not to disturb their exhausted fathers.
(c) They give their babysitting money to their parents.
(d) They help younger siblings with homework.

2. In Great Expectations, the narrator describes the relationship between the brown girls and who?
(a) Their brothers.
(b) Their sisters.
(c) Their neighbors.
(d) Their fathers.

3. Some brown boys call the girls by their real names rather than their American names. How do the girls react?
(a) They shout insults at them.
(b) They laugh at them.
(c) They call the boys by their real names.
(d) They work hard to walk away from them.

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

5. What do the brown girls and boys NOT notice as they cross through Prospect Park?
(a) The grass grows thick with rows of flowers.
(b) White women out jogging.
(c) No trash.
(d) More police officers patrolling the streets.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the girls meet the white boys’ parents, they suddenly become what?

2. How does Part One, Bras begin?

3. Why do girls decide it is in their best interest to initially ignore the boy who cursed at Trish?

4. What does the narrator say the other boys are?

5. How do the girls feel now that they have a white boy attracted to them?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are some of the girls bra experts?

2. How does life change for the girls who attend the public arts school?

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

4. What takes place in Night?

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

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

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

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

9. How does the narrator describe the community in which the brown girls live?

10. What takes place in Great Expectations?

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