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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 mostly do at the mall?
(a) Window shop.
(b) Chase each other around.
(c) Eat junk food.
(d) Try out perfumes.

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

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

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

5. In Part One, Brown, the narrator describes the various shades of brown of her and other brown girls. What is NOT a way she describes her and her friends’ skin tones?
(a) Sand at Rockaway Beach.
(b) 7-eleven root beer.
(c) Ash.
(d) Peanut butter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the Commandments described in Our Mothers’ Commandments?

2. Why do the girls’ parents feel it is best that the girls date boys like them?

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

4. In Art the girls are now specializing in various art forms. Which of the following is something many of them have NOT done?

5. How do some girls who listen to their parents and give up boys because they are a different race or color feel?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. In what ways are the brown girls good?

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

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

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

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