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

2. Why do the family and friends who come to stay with the girls and their families leave for other cities?
(a) They tire of living in cramped conditions in Queens.
(b) For work.
(c) They go to stay with other family members.
(d) To see more of America.

3. The brown girls show the white boys their neighborhoods. How do the brown boys react?
(a) They either ignore the white boys and talk to the girls or they call out insults to the boys.
(b) They jump the white boys.
(c) They threaten to beat up the white boys.
(d) They are friendly to the white boys and welcome them to the neighborhood.

4. The narrator tells of the training bras the girls wear. From whom did they learn about bras?
(a) Mothers and sisters.
(b) Magazines and advertisements.
(c) Older friends.
(d) Soap operas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a white woman say when she sees the brown boy and girl?

2. How do the girls feel now that they have a white boy attracted to them?

3. How old are the girls by “Art”?

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

5. In Great Expectations, the narrator describes the relationship between the brown girls and who?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the girls respond when asked what they want to be when they grow up?

3. In what ways are the brown girls good?

4. How do the girls feel when family members and friends leave their homes for other cities?

5. What takes place in Night?

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

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

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

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

10. In Brown Boys, how does the narrator describe the different sides of Prospect Park?

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