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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. Of what do statues on campus remind the brown girls?
(a) Why they are working so hard at school.
(b) Their families.
(c) Their white-only high school curriculum.
(d) What they will achieve by the time they graduate.

2. In Our Brothers, why do the brothers receive prison sentences?
(a) Drunk driving.
(b) Prostitution.
(c) Murder.
(d) Possession and selling of illegal drugs.

3. How do some of the brothers have a change of heart in The Lucky Ones?
(a) They help support their sisters.
(b) They apologize to their families.
(c) They volunteer at halfway houses.
(d) They return or turn to religion.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator thinks about legacy, what does she wonder about some who attend Ivy League schools?

2. When the girls arrive at their destination after they flee from Manhattan, what do they realize?

3. To what do the girls looks forward to in “Trish”?

4. Overall, how do the girls manage in the Motherland?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say the girls bring home from the Motherland?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does one of the girls realize that Trish had not been happy in a long time?

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

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