Brown Girl Dreaming Review Part 2

In the poem "ohio behind us," why did Jacqueline’s mother consider leaving the South?

• Her siblings have all left; Aunt Kay is in the North, Uncle Robert is planning on moving to New York, and Uncle Odell is dead

• She wants to move back to Ohio and move in with her husband’s family as the North has always been her dream.

• She wants to get away from her children as they are driving her crazy with their constant arguing.

• She has had a falling out with her own parents and does not feel welcome at their home anymore.

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What do Jackie and her siblings call their grandfather according to "gunnar's children"?

• Gunnar Grampy

• Grandpa

• Gunnar

• Daddy

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In "at the end of the day" why do the workers at the plant call Jacqueline’s grandfather Gunnar rather than Mr. Irby?

• He wanted the men to feel comfortable with him as their boss and he asked them to call him by his first name.

• The workers do not want to take orders from a black man, so they call him his first name rather than being respectful and addressing him as Mr. Irby.

• Grandfather felt too much like his own father, the “real” Mr. Irby in grandfather’s eyes.

• This was a policy that was followed by the entire factory; to call everybody by their first name, no matter what the title.

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In "daywork" what is the job that Jacqueline’s grandmother must do in order to feed the family?

• She works at the local hospital as a nurse.

• She cleans the houses of white families as a dayworker.

• She works for the Governor of South Carolina.

• She works in the diner as a waitress.

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Read the lines from the poem "Lullaby":

"Sometimes, there's the soft

who-whoo of an owl lost

amid the pines."

What is "who-whoo" an example of?

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• irony

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According to "south carolina at war," what is the “war” going on in South Carolina?

• The fight for Civil Rights for African Americans.

• The war against hunger as many South Carolina citizens are starving.

• The fight for education as many schools in the South were closing down at that time.

• A religious war; fighting between the local churches.

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During the Civil Rights Movement in the south, what was something that was NOT included in "the training."

• How to sit at a counter and be cursed at without cursing back

• How to sit tall, not cry, and swallow back fear

• How to report violence against them to the police

• How to not retaliate after you have food and drinks poured over you

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