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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. How does the narrator describe the songs that vocal students memorize?
(a) The languages of love.
(b) Moments from the past.
(c) Beautiful and challenging.
(d) The language of our colonizers.

2. The narrator tells of the training bras the girls wear. From whom did they learn about bras?
(a) Soap operas.
(b) Mothers and sisters.
(c) Magazines and advertisements.
(d) Older friends.

3. How old are the girls by “Art”?
(a) 15.
(b) 18.
(c) 17.
(d) 14.

4. What two groups does the narrator say eats the same lunch?
(a) The students at her school and the President of the United States.
(b) The students and teachers at her school.
(c) The students at her school and inmates in prisons.
(d) The students at her school and those in homeless shelters.

5. What is NOT a place that the narrator mentions as being in her neighborhood?
(a) An auto repair shop.
(b) Rainbow apparel store.
(c) Nail salons.
(d) White Castle.

Short Answer Questions

1. When brown boys notice the girls’ bodies, what do the girls mistakenly think?

2. Why do the girls run back home to their family parties from the wealthier part of the neighborhood?

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

4. How do the girls feel when their parents are confused about what they are learning in school?

5. Brown Girls is a collection of poems that tell the story of girls from what major city?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How do the Italian boys change throughout Part One?

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

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

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

9. What takes place in Great Expectations?

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

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