Brown Girl, Brownstones Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 148 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Brown Girl, Brownstones Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 148 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Pastorale.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miss Thompson do for a living?
(a) She runs a beauty shop and cleans offices.
(b) She cleans homes for the rich.
(c) She runs a bakery and does laundry.
(d) She runs a restaurant.

2. Why does Selina think that babies are born by cutting the mother's stomach open?
(a) Because that had been the way that Virgie had delivered her baby--by Caesarean section.
(b) Because she has read it in a medical book.
(c) Because that is what Ina had told her.
(d) Because Selina has a younger sibling who was born in that manner.

3. What is Selina's sister's name?
(a) Maritze.
(b) Mary.
(c) Ina.
(d) Virgie.

4. What does Selina see at the park in Book 2?
(a) Babies nursing.
(b) Birds mating.
(c) Lovers displaying affection toward each other.
(d) Her sister with a boy.

5. How does Selina feel when she realizes that her mother has not told her about the facts of life?
(a) Angry.
(b) Betrayed.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Scared.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sets Miss Mary apart from the other tenants?

2. Why did parents avoid teaching their daughters about sex in the early part of the 20th Century?

3. What does Mary think that Maritze's focus should be?

4. Who is Vergie?

5. Which of the following is one of the reasons that Maritze is bitter?

(see the answer key)

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