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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many girls do not know if or when they will be ready to have children but know that to admit this uncertainty would leave them how?
(a) Worried.
(b) Vulnerable.
(c) Angry.
(d) Unfulfilled.

2. How does Trish die?
(a) A drug overdose.
(b) In a car accident.
(c) Cancer.
(d) She is murdered.

3. What do those who have left the neighborhood remember seeing in the eyes of their friends who have stayed when they mentioned their accomplishments?
(a) A flash of anger.
(b) A flash of fear.
(c) A flash of pity.
(d) A flash of jealousy.

4. How is communication a struggle for the girls who speak their native tongues fluently?
(a) They are not good listeners.
(b) They have learned an entirely different dialect.
(c) Communicating ideas is a struggle.
(d) They do not understand new slang.

5. How do some of the brothers have a change of heart in The Lucky Ones?
(a) They apologize to their families.
(b) They volunteer at halfway houses.
(c) They return or turn to religion.
(d) They help support their sisters.

6. What is NOT an example given by the author as something intangible brought back to the States?
(a) A greater sense of distrust for all things American.
(b) Not caring about having darker skin.
(c) Understanding what life would have been like for the brown girls, if their parents had never left the Motherland.
(d) Feeling proud of their complexions.

7. Where do the girls meet to remember Trish?
(a) Her parents’ home on Long Island.
(b) Their old elementary school playground.
(c) A local bar in Queens.
(d) The cemetery.

8. The narrator then describes the Flea, affectionately nicknamed what?
(a) The nuisance.
(b) Le Flea.
(c) The bug.
(d) The Tick.

9. In Amnesia, the girls struggle to get out of bed in the morning, as they realize what?
(a) They forgot to buy coffee.
(b) Everyone they now interact with daily is white.
(c) They have no friends.
(d) They must go to work.

10. According to the narrator, how is making art a prison sentence?
(a) The girls hate themselves and the work they once loved.
(b) The girls are trapped in art contracts and deadlines.
(c) The girls do not know how to survive without their art.
(d) The girls know that making art is a lifelong sentence.

11. What has taken the place of The Flea?
(a) A tech company.
(b) A parking garage.
(c) A casino.
(d) A large grocery store.

12. What do the girls say about the brothers who manage to escape?
(a) They are still the same.
(b) They should come home.
(c) They find their voices.
(d) They find love.

13. Of what do statues on campus remind the brown girls?
(a) Their families.
(b) What they will achieve by the time they graduate.
(c) Why they are working so hard at school.
(d) Their white-only high school curriculum.

14. Why do some of the brothers struggle to find work, according to the author?
(a) They do not know how to act in public.
(b) They have poor educations.
(c) They are judged by their records.
(d) They are brown.

15. In Haunting, the girls follow Trish but end up where?
(a) At the edge of a cliff.
(b) The same place they began.
(c) Gasping for air in their beds.
(d) In the dregs of Queens.

Short Answer Questions

1. The girls tell happy stories of their youth with Trish, but one girl thinks back on the time she caught Trish doing what at a party?

2. How do friends react when the girls call and say they are taking a trip to see the Motherland?

3. What do the letters brought back from the Motherland reveal about the brown girls’ parents?

4. Overall, how do the girls manage in the Motherland?

5. In Reunion, why are the brown girls so relieved to be around each other?

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