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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Often the brown mothers ask if the girls are listening, as they seem to be ignoring their mothers. What are the girls thinking but not saying?
(a) They agree with their mothers but do not want to admit it.
(b) They disagree with their mothers.
(c) They hate their mothers.
(d) They are thinking about the homework they need to finish.

2. In Part One, Last Day, what is the reason the narrator gives for all the rigorous testing and high school applications?
(a) To train the students in the competitive ways of the City That Never Sleeps. Our home.
(b) To show the students who can make it in the world and who cannot.
(c) To encourage schools to be more integrated.
(d) To make some high schools increasingly better and others worse.

3. How do some girls who listen to their parents and give up boys because they are a different race or color feel?
(a) Shameful.
(b) Powerful.
(c) Righteous.
(d) Relieved.

4. In Part One, Optical Illusions, what do the girls do with the stolen makeup?
(a) They cover their faces in it to see what they would look like if they had white skin.
(b) They sell it on the street to earn extra cash.
(c) They give it to their mothers as a birthday gift.
(d) They follow a makeup tutorial to try to look like their favorite celebrities.

5. Where do the girls meet after midnight to get reassurance, they made a good choice to attend high school outside of Queens?
(a) Dunkin’ Donuts.
(b) The narrator’s home.
(c) 7-eleven.
(d) The local park.

6. Why do the girls feel the urge to leave the large family parties?
(a) They are bored.
(b) For a breath of fresh air.
(c) They are overheated.
(d) To play in the backyard.

7. How are the brown boys like lightning, according to the narrator?
(a) They are both bright and shining.
(b) They are both beautiful and dangerous.
(c) They are both powerful and dangerous.
(d) They are both scary and dangerous.

8. How do some girls convince themselves that boys of a different race and color are unworthy?
(a) The girls start to notice who the boys’ friends are.
(b) The girls start to notice the boys’ dirty shoes and messy hair.
(c) The girls start to notice how ugly the boys are.
(d) The girls start to notice how they speak English.

9. Why do the girls’ parents feel it is best that the girls date boys like them?
(a) Relationships with others will never last.
(b) They do not want the community to talk about them behind their backs.
(c) The others are unfaithful and too different.
(d) They do not want to be ostracized.

10. What is the nickname for the central road through the narrator’s neighborhood?
(a) The “Express train.”
(b) The “Boulevard of death.”
(c) “Times Square.”
(d) The “Racetrack.”

11. What do the girls end up throwing at the boys’ head who cursed at Trish?
(a) Carrots.
(b) Broccoli.
(c) A slice of pizza.
(d) A chicken patty.

12. When white boys call the brown girls beautiful, how do the girls NOT react, according to the narrator?
(a) Some openly laugh at the boys.
(b) Some smile but do not believe them.
(c) Some believe it because they know their own worth.
(d) Some believe it as they have been dying for this their entire lives.

13. What do the girls notice as they take notes on white philosophers and read Shakespeare?
(a) They never read about anyone that looks like them.
(b) They do not trust their white teachers.
(c) They have never read any of this before.
(d) They do not like these famous white people.

14. What is NOT one of the Commandments described in Our Mothers’ Commandments?
(a) You shall not be a dumb girl.
(b) You shall not be a troublesome girl.
(c) You shall not be a loud girl with many opinions.
(d) You shall not be an ugly girl.

15. In Territory, what is NOT a reason given by the narrator for why the brown girls tire of Manhattan?
(a) Manhattan snobs.
(b) Fake glamour.
(c) Central Park.
(d) High prices.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?

2. In Part One, Other Boys, what boys does the narrator describe falling for?

3. In Art the girls are now specializing in various art forms. Which of the following is something many of them have NOT done?

4. What does the narrator NOT say happens to the girls whose parents catch them sneaking out?

5. At the beginning of Part One, Do Now: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up, the narrator lists the responses the girls give to this question.

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