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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. The girls tell happy stories of their youth with Trish, but one girl thinks back on the time she caught Trish doing what at a party?
(a) Cleaning up after the other drunk kids.
(b) Snorting what is assumed to be cocaine.
(c) Dancing half-dressed on a table.
(d) Drinking too much.

2. How do the brown girls’ classmates respond when they are asked why they chose boarding schools over local schools?
(a) They shrug.
(b) They frown.
(c) They laugh.
(d) They look bewildered.

3. Those who stayed in Queens know that those who left do not care about what?
(a) New York City.
(b) Their dreams and aspirations.
(c) Their careers.
(d) Being loyal to family and friends.

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

5. As the brown girls see first-hand the devastation caused by the colonizers, what do they realize?
(a) They can never return to America.
(b) Whether they like it or not, they lay claim to both.
(c) They are the colonizers.
(d) They are to blame.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The successful girls are so visible they have become what?

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

4. In Amnesia, the girls struggle to get out of bed in the morning, as they realize what?

5. Why are many of Trish’s friends initially oblivious to what happened to Trish?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How has Rockaway Beach changed in “Meanwhile, in Queens”?

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

5. What is The Flea?

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

7. Why do the brown girls feel like going away to college is like going to Mars?

8. What famous people are from St. Albans, New York?

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

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

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