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

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

3. As the girls leave for home, what do they realize about home?
(a) It is nowhere to be found.
(b) It is in the Motherland.
(c) It is in America.
(d) It is not just one place.

4. How does the author describe the people on Rockaway Beach in Meanwhile, In Queens?
(a) Pale yuppies.
(b) Wealthy WASPs.
(c) Dangerous thugs.
(d) Tatted hipsters.

5. What business does the author hint at almost came to the brown girls’ neighborhood?
(a) Apple.
(b) Walmart.
(c) Starbucks.
(d) Amazon.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says multiple times that the boys do not cry but then, in parentheses, says what?

2. Why did the brown girls sneak into The Flea as young girls?

3. As the brown girls see first-hand the devastation caused by the colonizers, what do they realize?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is The Flea?

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

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

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

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

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

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