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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 do the brown girls’ classmates respond when they are asked why they chose boarding schools over local schools?
2. In Hyper/Visible/In/Visible, how do the brown girls who climb up the ranks in their chosen fields feel?
3. What do the brown girls realize about their elite classmates?
4. Overall, how do the girls manage in the Motherland?
5. As the girls leave for home, what do they realize about home?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are the girls changed by their visits to the Motherland?
2. What happens to the brothers who grow up?
3. How does “Meanwhile, in Queens” begin?
4. What are the ghosts mentioned in “Ghosts”?
5. Why are the brothers in Our Brothers sent to prison?
6. What does the narrator say is the thing the brown girls love most about what they see in the motherland?
7. How do the girls stand out as Americans while in the Motherland?
8. What seems to have led to Trish’s fatal car accident?
9. What is Jenny about?
10. Why do the brown girls feel like going away to college is like going to Mars?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Like the brown girls in Brown Girls, Daphne Palasi Andreades is from Queens, New York and a brown girl herself. How does this aid the reader in believing the narrator and author are one and the same? What other details from the book suggest that the author is the narrator and the book is autobiographical? Why might the details of this story be important for the author to share about her own life?
Essay Topic 2
In Part Five, some of the brown girls manage to travel abroad to their motherlands. What are the girls' experiences like? Are they surprised by this? Are you, as the reader, surprised? Why or why not? If you were one of these girls, would you have taken this trip? Why or why not?
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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