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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 did the brown girls sneak into The Flea as young girls?
(a) They were not liked by the owner.
(b) They were too young to enter alone.
(c) They were unable to pay the six-dollar entrance fee.
(d) They liked the excitement of sneaking in.

2. How do the girls feel when they see Trish’s face in their dreams?
(a) Happy.
(b) Scared.
(c) Angry.
(d) Sad.

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) Being loyal to family and friends.
(d) Their careers.

4. When some girls say they are not ready to have children, how does the narrator respond?
(a) We never will be.
(b) Someday we will be.
(c) But will we ever be?
(d) We should not wait until we are ready.

5. What makes the girls who have stayed angry?
(a) The love they see in their friends' eyes.
(b) The anger they see in their friends' eyes.
(c) The jealousy they see in their friends' eyes.
(d) The pity they see in their friends’ eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the girls meet to remember Trish?

2. What is The Flea?

3. Why do some of the brothers struggle to find work, according to the author?

4. In Hyper/Visible/In/Visible, how do the brown girls who climb up the ranks in their chosen fields feel?

5. Of what do statues on campus remind the brown girls?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens to the brothers who grow up?

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

6. What is The Flea?

7. Why are the brothers in Our Brothers sent to prison?

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

9. What does the narrator say is the thing the brown girls love most about what they see 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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