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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 is NOT a legacy of the brown girls listed by the narrator?

2. How is communication a struggle for the girls who speak their native tongues fluently?

3. In Haunting, the girls follow Trish but end up where?

4. Although the girls feel the urge to run away from college, why do they stay?

5. In The Things We Carry, what is NOT an example given by the narrator for something the girls bring home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the brown girls feel like going away to college is like going to Mars?

2. How does one of the girls realize that Trish had not been happy in a long time?

3. Why do the girls who leave Queens force themselves to stay away at college?

4. What is Jenny about?

5. How do the girls stand out as Americans while in the Motherland?

6. What does Daphne Palasi Andreades call the girls who change their majors to art?

7. How do others respond when some girls decide to visit the Motherland?

8. In Trish, how do many of the girls feel about their careers now that they are two years out of college?

9. How does “Meanwhile, in Queens” begin?

10. What does the narrator say the girls bring home from the Motherland?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

By Part Seven, Shadows and A Reckoning, the relationships between the brown girls and white boys and girls have changed dramatically since they first met earlier in Brown Girls. How have their relationships changed? How have the attitudes of the brown girls towards their white partners also changed? What has led to these changes? What does this say about the brown girls? How do you, as the reader, feel about these struggling relationships? What do you believe is the best course of action in these situations? Why?

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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