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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. How is communication a struggle for the girls who speak their native tongues fluently?
(a) They have learned an entirely different dialect.
(b) They do not understand new slang.
(c) They are not good listeners.
(d) Communicating ideas is a struggle.
2. How do the brown girls’ classmates respond when they are asked why they chose boarding schools over local schools?
(a) They look bewildered.
(b) They laugh.
(c) They shrug.
(d) They frown.
3. What has taken the place of The Flea?
(a) A large grocery store.
(b) A casino.
(c) A parking garage.
(d) A tech company.
4. According to the narrator, how is making art a prison sentence?
(a) The girls are trapped in art contracts and deadlines.
(b) The girls do not know how to survive without their art.
(c) The girls know that making art is a lifelong sentence.
(d) The girls hate themselves and the work they once loved.
5. What is The Flea?
(a) A thrift store in Ozone Park, Queens.
(b) A mall in Ozone Park, Queens.
(c) A restaurant in Ozone Park, Queens.
(d) An open-air market in Ozone Park, Queens.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Duty, what is NOT given as a way good girls suffer?
2. How do the mothers react to the boys being given prison sentences?
3. What business does the author hint at almost came to the brown girls’ neighborhood?
4. How does the author describe the people on Rockaway Beach in Meanwhile, In Queens?
5. The narrator then describes the Flea, affectionately nicknamed what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What famous people are from St. Albans, New York?
2. What are the ghosts mentioned in “Ghosts”?
3. How do the various family members react to the brothers receiving prison sentences?
4. What happens to the brothers who grow up?
5. Why do the girls who leave Queens force themselves to stay away at college?
6. Why are the brothers in Our Brothers sent to prison?
7. What does the narrator say is the thing the brown girls love most about what they see in the motherland?
8. How does one of the girls realize that Trish had not been happy in a long time?
9. What does the narrator say the girls bring home from the Motherland?
10. How has Rockaway Beach changed in “Meanwhile, in Queens”?
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