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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. Why do some of the brothers struggle to find work, according to the author?
2. The successful girls are so visible they have become what?
3. What do the letters brought back from the Motherland reveal about the brown girls’ parents?
4. How do the mothers react to the boys being given prison sentences?
5. What business does the author hint at almost came to the brown girls’ neighborhood?
Short Essay Questions
1. What seems to have led to Trish’s fatal car accident?
2. How do the various family members react to the brothers receiving prison sentences?
3. Why do the brown girls feel like going away to college is like going to Mars?
4. In Trish, how do many of the girls feel about their careers now that they are two years out of college?
5. What is The Flea?
6. Why do the girls who leave Queens force themselves to stay away at college?
7. What are the ghosts mentioned in “Ghosts”?
8. How do the girls stand out as Americans while in the Motherland?
9. How do others respond when some girls decide to visit the Motherland?
10. How are the girls changed by their visits to the Motherland?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The setting of Brown Girls is Queens, New York. What does the reader learn about Queens, particularly the part of the Borough the narrator and her friends live in? How does the setting impact the lives of these girls? How does your own environment directly impact your own life?
Essay Topic 2
In Part Four, there is a struggle between the girls who leave and those who stay. What is this struggle? What do they fail to understand about one another? Is this ever reconciled in Brown Girls? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
What is the subject matter of Brown Girls? What does Daphne Palasi Andreades have to say about this subject matter? Why might it be important to her? What might she want the reader to understand at the end of this novel? How might she hope this story impacts others?
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