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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 does the narrator NOT say happens to the girls whose parents catch them sneaking out?
(a) Some are ignored.
(b) Some are beaten.
(c) Some are threatened to be sent back to the motherland.
(d) Some are given up for adoption.

2. 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.

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

4. In Part One, Girls Like You, the narrator tells of what form of public transportation she and her friends take to get to the mall?
(a) Subways.
(b) Taxis.
(c) Ferries.
(d) Buses.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say the other boys are?

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

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

5. What do the brown girls and boys NOT notice as they cross through Prospect Park?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What takes place in Great Expectations?

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

7. What takes place in Night?

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

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

10. How do the girls respond when asked what they want to be when they grow up?

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