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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. How do the girls feel when their parents are confused about what they are learning in school?
2. In Thirst, the fathers get drunk on Johnnie Walker and beer as they reminisce with friends about what?
3. Part One, Brown Girls begins with the narrator describing the area in which she and her friends live. What is a way she does NOT describe it?
4. 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?
5. Why do the girls not think about what their parents would do to them if they were caught sneaking out to parties and having premarital sex?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what ways are the brown girls good?
2. How does the narrator describe the boys in Brown Boys?
3. In Part 2, Western Epistemology, why are the girls leery about being outside their school near the fence?
4. What takes place in Night?
5. Who are the guests who stay with the brown girls and their families? Why are they there?
6. In Brown Boys, how does the narrator describe the different sides of Prospect Park?
7. Why do the brown girls like the other boys better than the brown boys?
8. In Mothers’ Commandments, what are the Commandments listed by the narrator?
9. How does the narrator describe the various skin tones of the brown girls?
10. What does the narrator say happens to girls who are caught sneaking out or coming home late?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
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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