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

2. Where do the girls meet to remember Trish?
(a) The cemetery.
(b) A local bar in Queens.
(c) Their old elementary school playground.
(d) Her parents’ home on Long Island.

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

4. In Duty, what is NOT given as a way good girls suffer?
(a) Challenging classes.
(b) Studying for careers their parents chose for them.
(c) Boredom from easy courses.
(d) Difficult clinical rotations.

5. What do the brown girls realize about their elite classmates?
(a) They are not as intelligent as the brown girls.
(b) They do not have to work hard at schoolwork.
(c) They will most likely never have jobs.
(d) Their families worked for families such as these.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author describe the people on Rockaway Beach in Meanwhile, In Queens?

2. Why do the girls feel awkward when they hug each other?

3. How do the brown girls’ classmates respond when they are asked why they chose boarding schools over local schools?

4. Although the girls feel the urge to run away from college, why do they stay?

5. What led to improvements on Rockaway Beach?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to the brothers who grow up?

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

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

5. What does the narrator say is the thing the brown girls love most about what they see in the motherland?

6. What are the ghosts mentioned in “Ghosts”?

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

8. What is The Flea?

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

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

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