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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. When brown boys notice the girls’ bodies, what do the girls mistakenly think?
(a) The boys love them.
(b) Their beauty is their power.
(c) They need no other skills if they have beauty.
(d) They have met their future husbands.

2. In Part One, Last Day, what is the reason the narrator gives for all the rigorous testing and high school applications?
(a) To train the students in the competitive ways of the City That Never Sleeps. Our home.
(b) To encourage schools to be more integrated.
(c) To show the students who can make it in the world and who cannot.
(d) To make some high schools increasingly better and others worse.

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

4. Why do the girls feel the urge to leave the large family parties?
(a) To play in the backyard.
(b) They are overheated.
(c) For a breath of fresh air.
(d) They are bored.

5. When white boys call the brown girls beautiful, how do the girls NOT react, according to the narrator?
(a) Some smile but do not believe them.
(b) Some believe it because they know their own worth.
(c) Some openly laugh at the boys.
(d) Some believe it as they have been dying for this their entire lives.

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. What is the reason the narrator gives for why the brown girls would never date a brown boy?

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

4. In Part One, Musical Chairs, the narrator tells of how the teachers are notorious for what?

5. Why do the family and friends who come to stay with the girls and their families leave for other cities?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what ways are the brown girls good?

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

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

5. What takes place in Great Expectations?

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

7. Why are some of the girls bra experts?

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

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

10. In Brown Boys, how does the narrator describe the different sides of Prospect Park?

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