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- 1. Multiple Choice
Where was Jacqueline Woodson born?
A. Africa
B. Atlanta
C. Ohio
D. Washington D.C.
- 2. Multiple Choice
. When Jacqueline Woodson was born, who was the president of the United States?
Martin Luther King, Jr. Jack Austin Woodson
John F. Kennedy
Jack Austin Woodson
Donald Trump
- 3. Multiple Choice
Who made the news when the author was born?
Rosa Parks
Ruby Bridges
James Baldwin
1, 2, 3
- 4. Multiple Choice
How was the author’s name selected by her parents?
It was a strong, proud name.
Her father’s name was Jack.
It was a name that would make
people look at her twice.
Her grandfather’s name was Jack.
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is characteristic about the southern way of talking?
Silent moments
UHMM’S
Slow Speech
Lots of slang
- 6. Multiple Choice
What caused her mother to return the the South?
. Arguments
.
Her father’s death
She was needed back home.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Why did Mr. Woodson dislike the South?
Slavery was there.
Brown people were mistreated
It was humid and hot.
His home was up North.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Where did Robert want to go to live?
New York
Columbus
Ohio
Athens
- 9. Multiple Choice
Where does her grandfather work?
Cotton fields
.
Newspaper
Bank
- 10. Multiple Choice
How does Grandma earn money?
. Teaching
Cleaning
Both A and B
- 11. Multiple Choice
What do the kids like to do while having breakfast?
Watch television
Listen to the radio
Listen to Grandma’s stories
D. A, B ,C
- 12. Multiple Choice
Who taught Jacqueline how to write her name?
. Mama
Grandma
Gunnar
Odella
- 13. Multiple Choice
Why did Mama go to New York?
For Freedom
To see their father
To go to the ocean
- 14. Multiple Choice
Why do strangers doubt the baby belongs to Jacqueline’s family?
Space between his front teeth
Pale Color
Eyes
- 15. Multiple Choice
What object changed Jacqueline’s life?
Aunt Kay
Porch swing
Composition notebook
- 16. Multiple Choice
Which character ate paint?
Dell
Roman
Jacqueline
Hope
- 17. Multiple Choice
What did the kids at Mrs. Hughes’s Nursery and Day School talk about?
Their hair
The way they talked
Their names
All the above
- 18. Multiple Choice
What made their little brother so sick?
Not enough food
Falling out of the crib
Falling down the stairs
Eating lead paint
- 19. Multiple Choice
Why was STEVIE such a gift for Jacqueline?
A. It was about people who looked like
her.
. She thought he was a handsome
young man
She could read it easily.
The book was given to her.
- 20. Multiple Choice
Even though the law changed, Grandma kept doing what?
Sitting at the back of the bus
Choosing restaurants that she
always chose
Avoiding certain stores
All of the above
- 21. Multiple Choice
What was Jacqueline’s first book about?
Best Friends
Butterflies
Tingalayo
- 22. Multiple Choice
When did Jacqueline write a song?
After her father died
. While Maria was her friend
Coming home from prison
- 23. Multiple Choice
How did they get to see their father before he died?
Airplane
Bus
Train
- 24. Multiple Choice
Why did the family stop going south each summer?
It was too hot.
. They had more interesting places to
go.
It made Grandmother sad.
- 25. Multiple Choice
How did Jacqueline Woodson use laundry to question why people have different thinking?
We separate colored clothes from
whites so they keep their own original
colors.
. Clorox made irreparable damage in
colored clothes.
When you mix dark and light clothes,
they mingle and are never the same.
Mingled clothes can never return to
their original color.
- 26. Multiple Choice
What was the puzzle piece Jacqueline Woodson found when she was fourteen?
Her friend, Maria
Her father
Her teacher, Ms. Vivo
Her Aunt Ada
- 27. Multiple Choice
In the poem “in the backyard, under the mimosa tree”, what sound did she hear in her memory?
Birds
Yelling
Porch swing
Wind
- 28. Multiple Choice
What is the theme of BROWN GIRL DREAMING?
Family
Race
History
All the above
- 29. Multiple Choice
From whose point of view is this novel written?
Jacqueline's
Daddy Gunnar
Hope's
Robert's
- 30. Multiple Choice
What was the author's purpose for writing this novel?
persuade
inform
entertain
Both 2 and 3
- 31. Multiple Choice
Infinity
never-ending
stops at a certain point
loud
- 32. Multiple Choice
Mimeograph
poetry
duplicate, copy
none of the above
- 33. Multiple Choice
Jacqueline wore a beautiful sweater decorated with beautiful flowers on it.
Port Authority
mecca
embroidered
- 34. Multiple Choice
The United States gives freedom and liberty to all of its citizens.
Freedom Riders
Black Panthers
civil rights
- 35. Multiple Choice
Who is the author of Brown Girl Dreaming?
Robert Frost
Langston Hughes
Sharon Creech
Jacqueline Woodson
- 36. Multiple Choice
which of the following poems written by Jacqueline Woodson ends with "so I was born a Buckeye
against a backdrop of coal mines and family lines
and maybe this
was meant to be"
How to Listen
Journey
If
All the above
- 37. Multiple Choice
Which of the following family trees are at the beginning of the novel?
Irby and Smith
Woodson and Irby
Irby and Woodson
None of the above
- 38. Multiple Choice
Who were Gunnar and Georgiana?
Grandparents on the mother's side of the family
Grandparents on the father's side of the family
Uncle Robert's and Aunt Caroline's parents
both 1 and 3
- 39. Multiple Choice
At the end of the novel in thankfuls who does Jacqueline thank?
myriad of teachers for pointing her in the right direction
her mom and aunts and uncles on the Irby side of the family
her memory
her brothers and sisters and anyone and everyone that played a part whether large or small
all the above
- 40. Multiple Choice
brown girl dreaming won which of the following honors?
Newberry Honor Award
Williams Library Award
National Book Award
The Wall Street Journal Award
1 and 3
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