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

2. In Everything We Ever Wanted, the girls are now how old?
(a) 18.
(b) 15.
(c) 17.
(d) 16.

3. Why do girls decide it is in their best interest to initially ignore the boy who cursed at Trish?
(a) He is a low-life not worth their time.
(b) They find the boy's actions funny.
(c) He and his friends are racists and their parents would be upset if they got in a fight at school.
(d) They do not want to be punished by the dean.

4. Why do the girls not think about what their parents would do to them if they were caught sneaking out to parties and having premarital sex?
(a) They believe they are too cunning to get caught.
(b) Their parents do not care about them.
(c) They are too busy thinking about boys.
(d) Their parents are too tired from long days of work to notice.

5. Brown Girls is a collection of poems that tell the story of girls from what major city?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) New York City.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the girls give a rude response or laugh to the white boys’ compliments, how do the boys NOT react?

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

3. How old are the girls by “Art”?

4. When the white parents consider the brown girls and their families the good, hardworking immigrants, the girls realize what about their own families?

5. How many commandments are listed in Our Mothers’ Commandments?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the boys in Brown Boys?

2. What takes place in Great Expectations?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What takes place in Night?

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

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