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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 Part Four, Those Who Leave & Those Who Stay, what do those who leave notice that those who stay never mention?
(a) Their families.
(b) Local gossip.
(c) Their jobs.
(d) The important and serious events.

2. What led to improvements on Rockaway Beach?
(a) Newly-elected officials from the community.
(b) More government funding.
(c) Protests from residents.
(d) Destruction caused by a category 5 superstorm.

3. The successful girls are so visible they have become what?
(a) Invisible.
(b) Uncomfortable.
(c) Unsuccessful.
(d) Unusual.

4. How do the mothers react to the boys being given prison sentences?
(a) They weep uncontrollably.
(b) They are angry and silent.
(c) They scream curses at their sons.
(d) They beat their sons.

5. 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 talk to their parents about going on a trip.
(c) They call relatives in the Motherland who convince them to come.
(d) They curse out their bosses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has taken the place of The Flea?

2. In Heritage / Inheritance, what does the narrator say the girls are surprised to see?

3. What is The Flea?

4. According to the narrator, how is making art a prison sentence?

5. How do the girls’ feelings change as they board the plane to the Motherland?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Jenny about?

2. How do the residents feel about the tech company that threatened to come into the neighborhood?

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

4. What does Daphne Palasi Andreades call the girls who change their majors to art?

5. What does the narrator say the girls bring home from the Motherland?

6. What happens to the brothers who grow up?

7. How do the girls feel about their chosen fields of study in Duty?

8. How do the girls stand out as Americans while in the Motherland?

9. What seems to have led to Trish’s fatal car accident?

10. How do the various family members react to the brothers receiving prison sentences?

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