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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 the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?
(a) They try to forget their family secrets.
(b) They pretend they do not know anything about their families.
(c) They lie and say their immediate family members are the only ones who live in their homes.
(d) They often blackmail each other to keep each other quiet.

2. How do the girls feel now that they have a white boy attracted to them?
(a) They are beautiful and lucky.
(b) Their futures are secure.
(c) Confused about what to do now.
(d) Both that they have somehow managed to have something precious and feel dirty in their own skin.

3. In Part One, Optical Illusions, what do the girls do with the stolen makeup?
(a) They cover their faces in it to see what they would look like if they had white skin.
(b) They give it to their mothers as a birthday gift.
(c) They sell it on the street to earn extra cash.
(d) They follow a makeup tutorial to try to look like their favorite celebrities.

4. What does the narrator say about the native tongues of the girls in “Art”?
(a) They have grown increasingly more important.
(b) They have become half-remembered melodies.
(c) They draw attention to the girls and their art.
(d) They help the girls in expressing themselves as artists.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Part One, Last Day, what is the reason the narrator gives for all the rigorous testing and high school applications?

3. How many hours per week do the art students spend in art classes?

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

5. In Part One, Other Boys, what boys does the narrator describe falling for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are some of the girls bra experts?

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

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

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

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

6. What takes place in Great Expectations?

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

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

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

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

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