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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 NOT a name the brown girls call their teachers while in the lunchroom?
(a) Dumb and blind.
(b) Old-lady bitch.
(c) Idiot.
(d) Dumbass.

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

3. Some brown boys call the girls by their real names rather than their American names. How do the girls react?
(a) They work hard to walk away from them.
(b) They laugh at them.
(c) They call the boys by their real names.
(d) They shout insults at them.

4. What do the girls give up when family and friends from their native lands come to stay?
(a) Their beds.
(b) Their living rooms.
(c) Their beauty sleep.
(d) Their kitchens.

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) Peanut butter.
(d) Ash.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many commandments are listed in Our Mothers’ Commandments?

3. Part One, Brown Girls begins with the narrator describing the area in which she and her friends live. What is a way she does NOT describe it?

4. What is NOT a place that the narrator mentions as being in her neighborhood?

5. When white boys call the brown girls beautiful, how do the girls NOT react, according to the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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