View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Ferries.
(b) Buses.
(c) Subways.
(d) Taxis.

2. How do some girls convince themselves that boys of a different race and color are unworthy?
(a) The girls start to notice how ugly the boys are.
(b) The girls start to notice how they speak English.
(c) The girls start to notice the boys’ dirty shoes and messy hair.
(d) The girls start to notice who the boys’ friends are.

3. How do the girls feel when their parents are confused about what they are learning in school?
(a) Sadness and worry.
(b) A sense of loss.
(c) Fear that their parents will understand them less and less.
(d) A sense of power, meanness, and recklessness.

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

5. Why do the girls not think about what their parents would do to them if they were caught sneaking out to parties and having premarital sex?
(a) They are too busy thinking about boys.
(b) Their parents are too tired from long days of work to notice.
(c) Their parents do not care about them.
(d) They believe they are too cunning to get caught.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Your Own Kind, the brown girls’ parents say they are not what?

2. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?

3. What do the girls notice as they take notes on white philosophers and read Shakespeare?

4. In Part One, Duties, what is NOT an example of how the narrator and her ten-year-old friends are good girls?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What takes place in Night?

2. What takes place in Great Expectations?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,085 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample