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- 1. Multiple Choice
1. Where does the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming take place?
Halsey Park
New York City
Uncle Robert's house
Greenville, South Carolina
- 2. Multiple Choice
2. In the poem “another way” from Brown Girl Dreaming, what does Woodson’s mother bring home?
James Brown record
wrapped presents
board games
a new TV
- 3. Multiple Choice
3. In the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming, what is the main thing that readers learn about Odella, Woodson’s older sister?
Odella is bossy.
Odella is smart.
Odella tells lies.
Odella runs wild.
- 4. Multiple Choice
4. In the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming, how does Uncle Robert feel about Woodson’s stories?
They make him homesick.
He thinks they are lies.
They confuse him.
He likes them.
- 5. Multiple Choice
5. What makes Brown Girl Dreaming different from most other memoirs?
It is made up of poems.
It takes the form of a letter.
It has a first-person point of view.
It tells about the author’s childhood experiences.
- 6. Multiple Choice
6. If Mia says that the snowflakes are feathery, what does feathery mean?
The snowflakes are flying away.
The snowflakes are soft and light.
The snowflakes are falling rapidly.
The snowflakes are sticking to her.
- 7. Multiple Choice
7. Your little brother is humming at the dinner table. Which of your senses tells you this?
sight
taste
touch
hearing
- 8. Multiple Choice
8. Which of the following sentences best shows the meaning of shushes?
Grandma softly tells the children not to make any noise.
Jackson puts on his boots and wades through the mud.
Isa cheers wildly for the home team when they score.
Evan flattens each ball of cookie dough into a circle.
- 9. Multiple Choice
9 Part A In the poem “brooklyn rain” from Brown Girl Dreaming, how does Woodson feel about staying indoors?
Staying indoors bores her.
She is scared of the outdoors.
Staying indoors makes her feel safe.
She has more fun indoors than outdoors.
- 10. Multiple Choice
9 Part B Which line or lines in “brooklyn rain” from Brown Girl Dreaming most clearly support the answer to Part A?
The rain here is different than the way / it rains in Greenville.
Just Mama saying, Stay inside today. It’s raining….
…Nothing to do but / watch / the gray sidewalk grow darker….
Down south already feels like a long time ago….
- 11. Multiple Choice
10 Part A In the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming, what is Woodson always doing?
winning awards
getting in trouble
making things up
trying to sneak out
- 12. Multiple Choice
10 Part B Which quotation from Brown Girl Dreaming most clearly supports the answer to Part A?
…The boy says, / I was a baby. Says, She doesn’t remember him / and points to his silent sister.
But we are already awake, all four of us, smiling / and jumping around / my uncle: What’d you bring me?
I say, I know a girl ten times smarter than her. She gets diamonds every time she gets a hundred on a test.
When he takes us to the park, Uncle Robert tells us, / If you catch a dandelion puff, you can make a wish.
- 13. Multiple Choice
11 Part A Which sentence best describes Woodson in Brown Girl Dreaming?
She feels left out.
She dislikes her siblings.
She has a lively imagination.
She is the best singer in the family.
- 14. Multiple Choice
14 Part B Which quotation from Brown Girl Dreaming most clearly supports the answer to Part A?
…His feet are magic / and we all try to slide across the floor like he does, / our own feet, again and again, / betraying us.
…When I read, the words twist / twirl across the page. / When they settle, it is too late. / The class has already moved on.
Who was with you? / Nobody. / But you’re not allowed to go to the park without anyone. / I just did.
It’s hard to understand / the way my brain works.… / How each new story / I’m told becomes a thing / that happens, / in some other way / to me … !
- 15. Multiple Choice
12. In the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming, what does Woodson’s mother believe?
If she lets her children outdoors, they will commit crimes.
Children should not speak until they are spoken to.
Uncle Robert gets the children too worked up.
Her daughter’s stories sound like lies.
- 16. Multiple Choice
13 Part A From what point of view is Brown Girl Dreaming told?
first-person point of view
second-person point of view
third-person point of view
fourth-person point of view
- 17. Multiple Choice
13 Part B Which quotation from Brown Girl Dreaming best illustrates the answer to Part A?
… No slip and slide through grass.
Uncle Robert has moved to New York City!
I went up a hill yesterday, I say.
Sometimes, that’s the way things happen.
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