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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 girls fear motherhood?
(a) They worry they cannot afford children.
(b) They fear they would mess up their children or would be engulfed by motherhood.
(c) They fear their parents will interfere too much.
(d) They fear the pain of childbirth.

2. What do the letters brought back from the Motherland reveal about the brown girls’ parents?
(a) They have been sending money back home to support loved ones.
(b) They have been financially supported by family members in the old country.
(c) They hope to return to the Motherland someday.
(d) They have been trying to cut ties to the Motherland for years.

3. Overall, how do the girls manage in the Motherland?
(a) They manage as well as any American.
(b) They manage surprisingly well.
(c) They manage well, because they are from the Motherland.
(d) They do everything wrong.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do some of the brothers do who struggle to find work?

2. When some girls say they are not ready to have children, how does the narrator respond?

3. The narrator then describes the Flea, affectionately nicknamed what?

4. How do the mothers react to the boys being given prison sentences?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens to the brothers who grow up?

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

5. What is Jenny about?

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

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

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

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

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

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