Brown Girl Dreaming Pt 1-3 Test Review

What happens to Uncle Odell?

• He was hit by a car and killed

• He moved south with Mary Anne

• He got married when he was young

• He ran away from home

T/F: This book is a fiction novel.

• True

• False

Who is the narrator's older sister?

• Ashley

• Ophelia

• Cinderella

• Odella

What makes Brown Girl Dreaming different from most other memoirs?

• It is written like a journal.

• It is written in poetry.

• It is written using letters.

• It is about another person's life.

"brown girl dreaming" is written as a memoir about the author's childhood. What is a memoir?

• a fiction story about someone's life.

• a novel written in poetry.

• a nonfiction story about the author's important events in their life.

• a historical piece written in ancient times.

"A front porch swing thirsty for oil" What figure of speech does this sentence use?

• personification

• simile

• oxymoron

What figure of speech does this sentence use? "The Hocking River moves like a flowing arm away from the Ohio River"

• personification

• oxymoron

• simile

Who calls Jacqueline and her siblings HopeDellJackie?

• their grandfather

• their grandmother

• their dad

• their mom

Why do Jacqueline and her siblings call their grandfather Daddy?

• he is the only father figure in their lives

• he told them to call him that

• their mother calls him that

• he is taller than everyone else in Greenville

What is Nicholtown?

• An area of Greenville where mostly white families live

• The city that Jacqueline's grandparents work in

• An area of Greenville where mostly African American families live