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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 girls’ feelings change as they board the plane to the Motherland?

2. In Jenny, how do some of the brown girls feel about Jenny?

3. To what do the girls looks forward to in “Trish”?

4. What is The Flea?

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. What seems to have led to Trish’s fatal car accident?

2. When the brown girls meet up in Reunion, what are their mutual complaints about college?

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

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

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

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

7. How has Rockaway Beach changed in “Meanwhile, in Queens”?

8. How do the various family members react to the brothers receiving prison sentences?

9. What are the ghosts mentioned in “Ghosts”?

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

The unnamable is searched for in Interlude. What might this unnamable thing be? Why might the brown girls search for this unnamable thing in the places they search? What is this unnamable thing for you, the reader? How does this help you relate to the characters in this chapter?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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