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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 does the narrator describe the songs that vocal students memorize?
2. In Territory, what is NOT a reason given by the narrator for why the brown girls tire of Manhattan?
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 Boys, the narrator tells the reader they would stare at the brown boys and think what?
5. In Part One, Last Day, what is the reason the narrator gives for all the rigorous testing and high school applications?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do the girls handle the situation with Joseph Justin O’Brien?
2. In Everything We Ever Wanted, how do the girls feel now that white boys are attracted to them?
3. Who are the guests who stay with the brown girls and their families? Why are they there?
4. In what ways are the brown girls good?
5. How do the girls change once they begin attending the high school for the arts?
6. How does the narrator describe the boys in Brown Boys?
7. How does the narrator describe the various skin tones of the brown girls?
8. Why do the brown girls call their teachers terrible names?
9. In Western Epistemology, what do the girls learn at school in honors classes?
10. How do the Italian boys change throughout Part One?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
The plot is quite linear, as Daphne Palasi Andreades tells the story following a timeline of the brown girls as they age. How do you as the reader feel about this approach to storytelling? Why do you feel this way? If you were the author, would you have written it differently? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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