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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. In Duty, what is NOT given as a way good girls suffer?

2. Why do some girls fear motherhood?

3. What do the brown girls realize about their elite classmates?

4. How do the girls feel when they see Trish’s face in their dreams?

5. When some girls say they are not ready to have children, how does the narrator respond?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Daphne Palasi Andreades call the girls who change their majors to art?

2. Why are the brothers in Our Brothers sent to prison?

3. Why do the girls who leave Queens force themselves to stay away at college?

4. What famous people are from St. Albans, New York?

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

6. How does “Meanwhile, in Queens” begin?

7. What is Jenny about?

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

9. What are the problems the girls who leave and the girls who stay see in each other?

10. How are the girls changed by their visits to the Motherland?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Brown Girls is a coming-of-age novel. How so? How can the reader relate to this, even if he or she is not a brown girl from Queens? How does Daphne Palasi Andreades use the plot progression, literary devices, and the characters themselves to enhance this coming-of-age story?

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