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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When the girls meet the white boys’ parents, they suddenly become what?
2. How do the girls feel when their parents are confused about what they are learning in school?
3. What is the nickname for the central road through the narrator’s neighborhood?
4. In Part One, Brown Boys, the narrator tells the reader they would stare at the brown boys and think what?
5. How do some girls who listen to their parents and give up boys because they are a different race or color feel?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator say happens to girls who are caught sneaking out or coming home late?
2. In what ways are the brown girls good?
3. In Everything We Ever Wanted, how do the girls feel now that white boys are attracted to them?
4. Why might the narrator repeat that the homes the girls live in are neat but hidden, peripheral?
5. How do the girls respond when asked what they want to be when they grow up?
6. How do the girls change once they begin attending the high school for the arts?
7. What takes place in Night?
8. How do the girls feel when family members and friends leave their homes for other cities?
9. How does life change for the girls who attend the public arts school?
10. Why do the brown girls call their teachers terrible names?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Trish is the only brown girl that the reader knows by name. How is this important? Why might Daphne Palasi Andreades have chosen to only have one named character, with the character being a figment of the girls' imaginations throughout much of Brown Girls? What role does Trish play in the novel? How is it fitting that she is mentioned at the very end of the book?
Essay Topic 2
At the end of Part Four, the girls dream of Trish. What does Trish do? What is the connection of this to the events in Part Five? How does Trish help her friends, even after death? Had you predicted this? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
The unnamable is searched for in Interlude. What might this unnamable thing be? Why might the brown girls search for this unnamable thing in the places they search? What is this unnamable thing for you, the reader? How does this help you relate to the characters in this chapter?
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