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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two groups does the narrator say eats the same lunch?
(a) The students at her school and the President of the United States.
(b) The students and teachers at her school.
(c) The students at her school and inmates in prisons.
(d) The students at her school and those in homeless shelters.

2. When brown boys notice the girls’ bodies, what do the girls mistakenly think?
(a) They need no other skills if they have beauty.
(b) They have met their future husbands.
(c) The boys love them.
(d) Their beauty is their power.

3. What is NOT a place that the narrator mentions as being in her neighborhood?
(a) Nail salons.
(b) White Castle.
(c) Rainbow apparel store.
(d) An auto repair shop.

4. What does the narrator NOT say happens to the girls whose parents catch them sneaking out?
(a) Some are threatened to be sent back to the motherland.
(b) Some are given up for adoption.
(c) Some are ignored.
(d) Some are beaten.

5. When the narrator and her friends play dress-up in a store with beautiful clothes, what does a store clerk think is happening?
(a) They are adding graffiti to the merchandise.
(b) They are doing drugs.
(c) They are trying on gowns for prom.
(d) They are trying to steal.

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

7. In Everything We Ever Wanted, the girls are now how old?
(a) 15.
(b) 16.
(c) 17.
(d) 18.

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

9. In Part One, Musical Chairs, the narrator tells of how the teachers are notorious for what?
(a) Picking on the brown girls more than the other girls.
(b) Not showing up to class on time.
(c) Calling the brown girls by the wrong name.
(d) Not having enough chairs and desks in the classroom.

10. How many commandments are listed in Our Mothers’ Commandments?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

11. Some brown boys call the girls by their real names rather than their American names. How do the girls react?
(a) They call the boys by their real names.
(b) They work hard to walk away from them.
(c) They shout insults at them.
(d) They laugh at them.

12. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?
(a) They try to forget their family secrets.
(b) They often blackmail each other to keep each other quiet.
(c) They pretend they do not know anything about their families.
(d) They lie and say their immediate family members are the only ones who live in their homes.

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

14. In Part One, Girls Like You, the narrator tells of what form of public transportation she and her friends take to get to the mall?
(a) Ferries.
(b) Subways.
(c) Taxis.
(d) Buses.

15. What are the ethnicities the narrator names in Musical Chairs?
(a) Kenyan, American, Irish, Egyptian, Japanese, and Mongolian.
(b) Swedish, Israeli, Korean, South African, Indigenous Peoples, and Indian.
(c) Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Buddhist, and Jewish.
(d) Pakistani, Guyanese, Haitian, Ivory Coast, Filipino, and Chinese.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do some girls convince themselves that boys of a different race and color are unworthy?

2. Regarding the commandment for the girls to not be wayward, what is also not allowed to be discussed?

3. In Territory, what is NOT a reason given by the narrator for why the brown girls tire of Manhattan?

4. The brown girls show the white boys their neighborhoods. How do the brown boys react?

5. How many hours per week do the art students spend in art classes?

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