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

2. How is communication a struggle for the girls who speak their native tongues fluently?
(a) They have learned an entirely different dialect.
(b) They are not good listeners.
(c) Communicating ideas is a struggle.
(d) They do not understand new slang.

3. What is The Flea?
(a) An open-air market in Ozone Park, Queens.
(b) A restaurant in Ozone Park, Queens.
(c) A thrift store in Ozone Park, Queens.
(d) A mall in Ozone Park, Queens.

4. What does the narrator say is the brown girls’ privilege?
(a) Being American.
(b) Having weak American stomachs.
(c) Speaking English.
(d) Education.

5. In Amnesia, the girls struggle to get out of bed in the morning, as they realize what?
(a) They must go to work.
(b) They have no friends.
(c) They forgot to buy coffee.
(d) Everyone they now interact with daily is white.

Short Answer Questions

1. The girls who are happy being single with no children shock their parents, as being a parent is what?

2. In Part Three, Welcome to Mars, what is compared to Mars?

3. The girls hop into their cars and drive away from their posh Manhattan neighborhoods, through the residential and cultural streets of Brooklyn, and finally end up where?

4. How does the narrator respond when the girls enjoy the local music and remixes of American music?

5. In Art, what was once the thing that gave the girls a sense of peace and safety is now what, according to the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the girls who leave Queens force themselves to stay away at college?

2. What happens to the brothers who grow up?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is The Flea?

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

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

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