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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. In Thirst, the fathers get drunk on Johnnie Walker and beer as they reminisce with friends about what?

2. What do the girls end up throwing at the boys’ head who cursed at Trish?

3. In Night, how do the brown girls pay for expensive clothes?

4. In Part One, Duties, what is NOT an example of how the narrator and her ten-year-old friends are good girls?

5. How do the girls feel about the store clerk?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Your Own Kind, what are the reasons are given for why the girls should not date outside of their own community?

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

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

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

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

7. In what ways are the brown girls good?

8. How does the narrator describe the various skin tones of the brown girls?

9. Why are some of the girls bra experts?

10. How does life change for the girls who attend the public arts school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Part Four, there is a struggle between the girls who leave and those who stay. What is this struggle? What do they fail to understand about one another? Is this ever reconciled in Brown Girls? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Brown Girls is a coming-of-age novel. How so? How can the reader relate to this, even if he or she is not a brown girl from Queens? How does Daphne Palasi Andreades use the plot progression, literary devices, and the characters themselves to enhance this coming-of-age story?

Essay Topic 3

In both chapters titled, Jenny, the brown girls reveal their love for other women. What takes place in both of these chapters? How are they similar? How are they different? What aspects of the second chapter titled Jenny reveals that the brown girls have grown up and are more sure of who they are? How does the second chapter also reveal, for some girls, that gender and attraction are a lifelong struggle?

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