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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 do the girls notice as they take notes on white philosophers and read Shakespeare?
(a) They never read about anyone that looks like them.
(b) They do not like these famous white people.
(c) They do not trust their white teachers.
(d) They have never read any of this before.

2. Why do the girls run back home to their family parties from the wealthier part of the neighborhood?
(a) They are bored.
(b) They are threatened.
(c) They almost get lost.
(d) There is life and laughter there.

3. What are the ethnicities the narrator names in Musical Chairs?
(a) Pakistani, Guyanese, Haitian, Ivory Coast, Filipino, and Chinese.
(b) Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Buddhist, and Jewish.
(c) Kenyan, American, Irish, Egyptian, Japanese, and Mongolian.
(d) Swedish, Israeli, Korean, South African, Indigenous Peoples, and Indian.

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

5. Regarding the commandment for the girls to not be wayward, what is also not allowed to be discussed?
(a) Dating.
(b) Birth control options.
(c) What it is like being pregnant.
(d) Marriage.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Territory, what is NOT a reason given by the narrator for why the brown girls tire of Manhattan?

3. Some brown boys call the girls by their real names rather than their American names. How do the girls react?

4. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why are some of the girls bra experts?

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

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

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