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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. When the white parents consider the brown girls and their families the good, hardworking immigrants, the girls realize what about their own families?
3. What is NOT one of the Commandments described in Our Mothers’ Commandments?
4. Where do the girls meet after midnight to get reassurance, they made a good choice to attend high school outside of Queens?
5. In Part One, Optical Illusions, what do the girls do with the stolen makeup?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why are some of the girls bra experts?
2. In Everything We Ever Wanted, how do the girls feel now that white boys are attracted to them?
3. Why might the narrator repeat that the homes the girls live in are neat but hidden, peripheral?
4. How do the girls change once they begin attending the high school for the arts?
5. How do the girls respond when asked what they want to be when they grow up?
6. How does the narrator describe the various skin tones of the brown girls?
7. In Your Own Kind, what are the reasons are given for why the girls should not date outside of their own community?
8. Why do the brown girls call their teachers terrible names?
9. How do the girls feel when family members and friends leave their homes for other cities?
10. How does life change for the girls who attend the public arts school?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
At the end of Part Four, the girls dream of Trish. What does Trish do? What is the connection of this to the events in Part Five? How does Trish help her friends, even after death? Had you predicted this? Why or why not?
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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