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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. In Welcome to Mars, how do the girls feel around the elite?
(a) Superior.
(b) Out of place.
(c) Uninterested.
(d) Right at home.

2. What do some of the brothers do who struggle to find work?
(a) They become priests, monks, and imams.
(b) They go back to school.
(c) They work for relatives.
(d) They return to their old ways.

3. What is the first step the girls take that leads to them taking a trip to visit the Motherland (Fatherland)?
(a) They take off two weeks from work.
(b) They curse out their bosses.
(c) They call relatives in the Motherland who convince them to come.
(d) They talk to their parents about going on a trip.

4. Why do some of the brothers struggle to find work, according to the author?
(a) They are judged by their records.
(b) They have poor educations.
(c) They do not know how to act in public.
(d) They are brown.

5. According to the narrator, how is making art a prison sentence?
(a) The girls are trapped in art contracts and deadlines.
(b) The girls hate themselves and the work they once loved.
(c) The girls do not know how to survive without their art.
(d) The girls know that making art is a lifelong sentence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Part Six, Meanwhile, in Queens begin?

2. What business does the author hint at almost came to the brown girls’ neighborhood?

3. What is NOT an example of the blending of cultures given by the narrator?

4. What is NOT an example of how the brown girls traveling to Motherlands look like Americans?

5. What do those who have left the neighborhood remember seeing in the eyes of their friends who have stayed when they mentioned their accomplishments?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Jenny about?

2. What are the problems the girls who leave and the girls who stay see in each other?

3. When the brown girls meet up in Reunion, what are their mutual complaints about college?

4. What is The Flea?

5. How do others respond when some girls decide to visit the Motherland?

6. What happens to the brothers who grow up?

7. Why are the brothers in Our Brothers sent to prison?

8. In Trish, how do many of the girls feel about their careers now that they are two years out of college?

9. How does “Meanwhile, in Queens” begin?

10. How are the girls changed by their visits to the Motherland?

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