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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 friends react when the girls call and say they are taking a trip to see the Motherland?
2. How does the author describe the people on Rockaway Beach in Meanwhile, In Queens?
3. In Our Brothers, why do the brothers receive prison sentences?
4. In Jenny, how do some of the brown girls feel about Jenny?
5. Trish puts her hands on the girls’ shoulders as the girls close their eyes and does what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the problems the girls who leave and the girls who stay see in each other?
2. How are the girls changed by their visits to the Motherland?
3. How does one of the girls realize that Trish had not been happy in a long time?
4. What happens to the brothers who grow up?
5. What seems to have led to Trish’s fatal car accident?
6. What does the narrator say is the thing the brown girls love most about what they see in the motherland?
7. What famous people are from St. Albans, New York?
8. Why are the brothers in Our Brothers sent to prison?
9. How do the residents feel about the tech company that threatened to come into the neighborhood?
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
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 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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