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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. What led to improvements on Rockaway Beach?
2. What is NOT an example of the blending of cultures given by the narrator?
3. What does the narrator call the girls who find solace in the arts and switch their majors to art?
4. 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?
5. How do the girls’ feelings change as they board the plane to the Motherland?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Trish, how do many of the girls feel about their careers now that they are two years out of college?
2. How are the girls changed by their visits to the Motherland?
3. What are the ghosts mentioned in “Ghosts”?
4. What does the narrator say is the thing the brown girls love most about what they see in the motherland?
5. What is Jenny about?
6. How does one of the girls realize that Trish had not been happy in a long time?
7. Why are the brothers in Our Brothers sent to prison?
8. Why do the brown girls feel like going away to college is like going to Mars?
9. When the brown girls meet up in Reunion, what are their mutual complaints about college?
10. What happens to the brothers who grow up?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Queens has changed since the brown girls were little. How has it changed? What do the girls think about these changes? What do these changes reveal about the locals, as well as those in high positions in local and federal government?
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
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?
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