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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 mothers react to the boys being given prison sentences?
2. The girls who are happy being single with no children shock their parents, as being a parent is what?
3. What does the narrator say is the brown girls’ privilege?
4. How do some of the brothers have a change of heart in The Lucky Ones?
5. How is communication a struggle for the girls who speak their native tongues fluently?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do the brown girls feel like going away to college is like going to Mars?
2. What are the ghosts mentioned in “Ghosts”?
3. How does one of the girls realize that Trish had not been happy in a long time?
4. How do the girls stand out as Americans while in the Motherland?
5. What are the problems the girls who leave and the girls who stay see in each other?
6. What seems to have led to Trish’s fatal car accident?
7. In Trish, how do many of the girls feel about their careers now that they are two years out of college?
8. How has Rockaway Beach changed in “Meanwhile, in Queens”?
9. Why are the brothers in Our Brothers sent to prison?
10. How do the residents feel about the tech company that threatened to come into the neighborhood?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The setting of Brown Girls is Queens, New York. What does the reader learn about Queens, particularly the part of the Borough the narrator and her friends live in? How does the setting impact the lives of these girls? How does your own environment directly impact your own life?
Essay Topic 2
When some of the brown girls go off to college, they feel significantly out of place. Why do they feel this way? What aspects of college make it feel like a negative experience to be someplace very different from home? Can you relate to this? 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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