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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. In Part One, Girls Like You, the narrator tells of what form of public transportation she and her friends take to get to the mall?

2. How do the girls feel when they wander to the wealthier part of the neighborhood?

3. How do the girls respond when the girls receive compliments from the Italian boys on their stoops?

4. The brown girls show the white boys their neighborhoods. How do the brown boys react?

5. In Part One, Family Parties, what is a comment NOT given by the narrator regarding the girls’ aunts?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways are the brown girls good?

2. How does the narrator describe the community in which the brown girls live?

3. How do the girls handle the situation with Joseph Justin O’Brien?

4. How do the Italian boys change throughout Part One?

5. How do the girls change once they begin attending the high school for the arts?

6. What does the narrator say happens to girls who are caught sneaking out or coming home late?

7. What takes place in Great Expectations?

8. How does the narrator describe the boys in Brown Boys?

9. In Western Epistemology, what do the girls learn at school in honors classes?

10. In Brown Boys, how does the narrator describe the different sides of Prospect Park?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Part Four, there is a struggle between the girls who leave and those who stay. What is this struggle? What do they fail to understand about one another? Is this ever reconciled in Brown Girls? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

When some of the brown girls go off to college, they feel significantly out of place. Why do they feel this way? What aspects of college make it feel like a negative experience to be someplace very different from home? Can you relate to this? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

By Part Seven, Shadows and A Reckoning, the relationships between the brown girls and white boys and girls have changed dramatically since they first met earlier in Brown Girls. How have their relationships changed? How have the attitudes of the brown girls towards their white partners also changed? What has led to these changes? What does this say about the brown girls? How do you, as the reader, feel about these struggling relationships? What do you believe is the best course of action in these situations? Why?

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