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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. The successful girls are so visible they have become what?
2. In Haunting, the girls follow Trish but end up where?
3. Overall, how do the girls manage in the Motherland?
4. Those who stayed in Queens know that those who left do not care about what?
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. How do the girls feel about their chosen fields of study in Duty?
2. What is Jenny about?
3. What does the narrator say is the thing the brown girls love most about what they see in the motherland?
4. What famous people are from St. Albans, New York?
5. How do others respond when some girls decide to visit the Motherland?
6. What does the narrator say the girls bring home from the Motherland?
7. When the brown girls meet up in Reunion, what are their mutual complaints about college?
8. What are the ghosts mentioned in “Ghosts”?
9. What is The Flea?
10. What happens to the brothers who grow up?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
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
In both chapters titled, Jenny, the brown girls reveal their love for other women. What takes place in both of these chapters? How are they similar? How are they different? What aspects of the second chapter titled Jenny reveals that the brown girls have grown up and are more sure of who they are? How does the second chapter also reveal, for some girls, that gender and attraction are a lifelong struggle?
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