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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 how they speak English.
(c) The girls start to notice how ugly the boys are.
(d) The girls start to notice the boys’ dirty shoes and messy hair.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the girls meet the white boys’ parents, they suddenly become what?

2. How are the brown boys like lightning, according to the narrator?

3. How do the girls feel when their parents are confused about what they are learning in school?

4. In Our Mothers Speak, what is NOT an example given by the narrator of the advice and wisdom given out by brown mothers?

5. How many days before school starts the girls who have chosen to leave Queens begin to question their choices?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the brown girls call their teachers terrible names?

2. Why are some of the girls bra experts?

3. What takes place in Great Expectations?

4. How does the narrator describe the boys in Brown Boys?

5. In Part 2, Western Epistemology, why are the girls leery about being outside their school near the fence?

6. How do the girls change once they begin attending the high school for the arts?

7. What does the narrator say happens to girls who are caught sneaking out or coming home late?

8. In Western Epistemology, what do the girls learn at school in honors classes?

9. Why might the narrator repeat that the homes the girls live in are neat but hidden, peripheral?

10. How does the narrator describe the community in which the brown girls live?

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