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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. What is the reason the narrator gives for why the brown girls would never date a brown boy?
(a) Although he is good looking, he is not going anywhere.
(b) He is mean and rude.
(c) He is not good looking or intelligent.
(d) Although he is good looking, he does not look – you know.

2. What is NOT one of the Commandments described in Our Mothers’ Commandments?
(a) You shall not be a troublesome girl.
(b) You shall not be a loud girl with many opinions.
(c) You shall not be an ugly girl.
(d) You shall not be a dumb girl.

3. How are the brown boys like lightning, according to the narrator?
(a) They are both powerful and dangerous.
(b) They are both bright and shining.
(c) They are both beautiful and dangerous.
(d) They are both scary and dangerous.

4. In Part One, Musical Chairs, the narrator tells of how the teachers are notorious for what?
(a) Picking on the brown girls more than the other girls.
(b) Calling the brown girls by the wrong name.
(c) Not having enough chairs and desks in the classroom.
(d) Not showing up to class on time.

5. When the girls meet the white boys’ parents, they suddenly become what?
(a) A threat to the white family’s security.
(b) Ambassadors of Third World Nations.
(c) A celebrity.
(d) Second class citizens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the girls feel the urge to leave the large family parties?

2. 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?

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

4. The brown girls show the white boys their neighborhoods. How do the brown boys react?

5. In Everything We Ever Wanted, the girls are now how old?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why do the brown girls call their teachers terrible names?

10. In what ways are the brown girls good?

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