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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do the brown girls and boys NOT notice as they cross through Prospect Park?
2. In Territory, what is NOT a reason given by the narrator for why the brown girls tire of Manhattan?
3. In Part One, Brown, the narrator describes the various shades of brown of her and other brown girls. What is NOT a way she describes her and her friends’ skin tones?
4. What do the girls give up when family and friends from their native lands come to stay?
5. What does the narrator say the other boys are?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator describe the community in which the brown girls live?
2. In Everything We Ever Wanted, how do the girls feel now that white boys are attracted to them?
3. What does the narrator say happens to girls who are caught sneaking out or coming home late?
4. In Brown Boys, how does the narrator describe the different sides of Prospect Park?
5. In what ways are the brown girls good?
6. How do the girls respond when asked what they want to be when they grow up?
7. In Your Own Kind, what are the reasons are given for why the girls should not date outside of their own community?
8. Why do the brown girls like the other boys better than the brown boys?
9. What takes place in Night?
10. How do the girls change once they begin attending the high school for the arts?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The unnamable is searched for in Interlude. What might this unnamable thing be? Why might the brown girls search for this unnamable thing in the places they search? What is this unnamable thing for you, the reader? How does this help you relate to the characters in this chapter?
Essay Topic 2
The plot is quite linear, as Daphne Palasi Andreades tells the story following a timeline of the brown girls as they age. How do you as the reader feel about this approach to storytelling? Why do you feel this way? If you were the author, would you have written it differently? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Queens has changed since the brown girls were little. How has it changed? What do the girls think about these changes? What do these changes reveal about the locals, as well as those in high positions in local and federal government?
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