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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. How do the girls feel when their parents are confused about what they are learning in school?
2. What is the nickname for the central road through the narrator’s neighborhood?
3. How do the girls feel now that they have a white boy attracted to them?
4. What two groups does the narrator say eats the same lunch?
5. What is the reason the narrator gives for why the brown girls would never date a brown boy?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part 2, Western Epistemology, why are the girls leery about being outside their school near the fence?
2. In Your Own Kind, what are the reasons are given for why the girls should not date outside of their own community?
3. What takes place in Great Expectations?
4. In what ways are the brown girls good?
5. How do the girls respond when asked what they want to be when they grow up?
6. Who are the guests who stay with the brown girls and their families? Why are they there?
7. How does the narrator describe the various skin tones of the brown girls?
8. How does life change for the girls who attend the public arts school?
9. Why might the narrator repeat that the homes the girls live in are neat but hidden, peripheral?
10. What takes place in Night?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
What is the subject matter of Brown Girls? What does Daphne Palasi Andreades have to say about this subject matter? Why might it be important to her? What might she want the reader to understand at the end of this novel? How might she hope this story impacts others?
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