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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, Brown, the narrator describes the various shades of brown of her and other brown girls. What is NOT a way she describes her and her friends’ skin tones?

2. In Night, how do the brown girls pay for expensive clothes?

3. In Part One, Optical Illusions, what do the girls do with the stolen makeup?

4. What is NOT a name the brown girls call their teachers while in the lunchroom?

5. In Art the girls are now specializing in various art forms. Which of the following is something many of them have NOT done?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. In Mothers’ Commandments, what are the Commandments listed by the narrator?

10. How do the girls feel when family members and friends leave their homes for other cities?

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

Racism and prejudice is an important theme in Brown Girls. What are two examples of racism or other prejudice in this novel? Is this surprising to you? Why or why not? How does this affect you? How does this theme permeate the entire novel?

Essay Topic 3

Brown Girls reads like poetry. Why? What about it makes it feels like both prose and poetry? Why might Daphne Palasi Andreades have chosen to do this? How does this affect the reader?

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