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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 did the brown girls sneak into The Flea as young girls?
2. The girls hop into their cars and drive away from their posh Manhattan neighborhoods, through the residential and cultural streets of Brooklyn, and finally end up where?
3. What do the brown girls realize about their elite classmates?
4. What is NOT an example of the blending of cultures given by the narrator?
5. What is The Flea?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do the girls stand out as Americans while in the Motherland?
2. How are the girls changed by their visits to the Motherland?
3. How do the girls feel about their chosen fields of study in Duty?
4. What happens to the brothers who grow up?
5. What are the ghosts mentioned in “Ghosts”?
6. Why do the brown girls feel like going away to college is like going to Mars?
7. How do others respond when some girls decide to visit the Motherland?
8. Why do the girls who leave Queens force themselves to stay away at college?
9. How do the residents feel about the tech company that threatened to come into the neighborhood?
10. Why are the brothers in Our Brothers sent to prison?
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
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 3
As the girls grow up, so have their brothers. What has happened to the brothers? What has led to these events? What is the role of the girls in all of this? What does this say about love? How does this mirror the relationships between the brown girls' parents and their connections to relatives back home?
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