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

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

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

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

5. When the narrator thinks about legacy, what does she wonder about some who attend Ivy League schools?
(a) How many paid their way into these schools.
(b) How many commit suicide.
(c) How many do not graduate.
(d) How many are mediocre students.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Patriotic, what is the main reason given for why the brown girls debate becoming mothers?

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

4. How do friends react when the girls call and say they are taking a trip to see the Motherland?

5. What city were some Queens’ residents worried their community would mimic, if the big tech company came to their town?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the brothers who grow up?

2. What is The Flea?

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

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

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

6. What is Jenny about?

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

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

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

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

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