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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. What do the girls give up when family and friends from their native lands come to stay?

2. Where do the girls meet after midnight to get reassurance, they made a good choice to attend high school outside of Queens?

3. Why do the girls run back home to their family parties from the wealthier part of the neighborhood?

4. In Part One, Brown Boys, the narrator tells the reader they would stare at the brown boys and think what?

5. When brown boys notice the girls’ bodies, what do the girls mistakenly think?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the girls respond when asked what they want to be when they grow up?

2. Why do the brown girls call their teachers terrible names?

3. What takes place in Night?

4. Why might the narrator repeat that the homes the girls live in are neat but hidden, peripheral?

5. Why are some of the girls bra experts?

6. In Everything We Ever Wanted, how do the girls feel now that white boys are attracted to them?

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

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

9. How does life change for the girls who attend the public arts school?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Brown Girls is a coming-of-age novel. How so? How can the reader relate to this, even if he or she is not a brown girl from Queens? How does Daphne Palasi Andreades use the plot progression, literary devices, and the characters themselves to enhance this coming-of-age story?

Essay Topic 2

Struggle is an important theme in Brown Girls. How do the girls struggle? Do they overcome these obstacles? If so, how? If not, why not? How is this a universal theme? How do you personally relate to this theme and the characters and events in this novel?

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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