Brown Girl Dreaming

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.

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.

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 … !

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

Where does the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming take place?

• Halsey Park

• New York City

• Uncle Robert's house

• Greenville, South Carolina

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

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.

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.

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.

In 'Brown Girl Dreaming', what literary device is most prominently used in the line 'When I read, the words twist / twirl across the page'?

• A) Metaphor

• B) Simile

• C) Personification

• D) Hyperbole