Brown Girl Dreaming Test: Part 2

Where does the grandfather work?

• He's a foreman at the printing press

• He's a farmer.
• He works at the bank.
• He does not have a job.

In the poem, "lullaby" (pg. 58), which nighttime creature is the one whose sound lasts the longest in the night?

• frogs
• owls
• dogs
• crickets

What jobs does Jacqueline's grandmother have in South Carolina?

• She teaches part-time.
• She cleans people's homes.
• Both A and B.
• Neither A nor B.

How does the neighbor, Miss Bell, help the fight against segregation? (pg. 80-81)

• She lets protesters in her home to talk.
• She provides meals for the protesters.
• She goes on marches with other protesters.
• Both A and B answers.

In the poem, "american dream", (pg. 88-89), what is the Grandmother's idea of the American Dream?

• to own a house
• to have a good job
• for everyone to live equally in a country that supposed to be the land of the free
• to live peacefully with a person's own race

What type of figurative language is shown in this quote, "A front porch swing thirsty for oil." (p32) ?

• personification
• onomatopoeia
• simile
• metaphor

What type of figurative language is shown in this quote, " the hiss of the iron" (pg108) ?

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia

Which of the five senses does this detail appeal to, "her mouth a small lipsticked dash" (pg. 30) ?

• touch
• taste
• sight
• sound

Which of the five senses does this detail appeal to, "...the soft who-whoo of an owl..." (pg. 58)?

• sound
• sight
• touch
• smell

Explain why Jacqueline's mother did not feel like South Carolina was home any longer. (ohio behind us, pg. 46-47).