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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. Trish puts her hands on the girls’ shoulders as the girls close their eyes and does what?
(a) Tells them to wake up as she pushes them back over the cliff.
(b) Tells them to take care and pushes them back over the cliff.
(c) Hugs them.
(d) Says goodbye.

2. What do those who have stayed say is the difference between the two types of girls?
(a) Those who have stayed have never become strangers.
(b) Those who have stayed will never be alone.
(c) Those who have left care only about themselves.
(d) Those who have left can never come back.

3. To what do the girls looks forward to in “Trish”?
(a) Seeing Trish's parents.
(b) Happy Hour.
(c) Sharing stories about Trish.
(d) Going back to their homes and daily schedules.

4. In Duty, what is NOT given as a way good girls suffer?
(a) Studying for careers their parents chose for them.
(b) Challenging classes.
(c) Difficult clinical rotations.
(d) Boredom from easy courses.

5. The narrator says multiple times that the boys do not cry but then, in parentheses, says what?
(a) They are silent.
(b) They weep.
(c) They scream.
(d) They breathe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the letters brought back from the Motherland reveal about the brown girls’ parents?

2. How do some of the brothers have a change of heart in The Lucky Ones?

3. In Ghosts, the girls meet up for the first time in a while, and do what?

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

5. The girls who are happy being single with no children shock their parents, as being a parent is what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do the brown girls feel like going away to college is like going to Mars?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What happens to the brothers who grow up?

9. What is Jenny about?

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

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