From Brown Girl Dreaming

What makes Brown Girl Dreaming different from most other memoirs?

• It is made up of poems

• It has a first-perrson point of view

• It tells about the author's childhood experiences

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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

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Which line or lines in "brooklyn rain" from Brown Girl Dreaming MOST CLEARLY support the answer to Part A? (In the poem "brooklyn rain" from Brown Girl Dreaming, how does Woodson feel about staying indoors? )

• 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...

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PART A: In the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming, what is Woodson always doing?

• getting in trouble

• making things up

• trying to sneak out

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In this excerpt of Brown Girl Dreaming, what does Woodson's mother believe?

• Children should not speak until they are spoken to

• Uncle Robert gets the children too worked up

• Her daughter's stories sound like lies

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Where does the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming take place?

• New York City

• Uncle Robert's house

• Greenville, South Carolina

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Which quotation from Brown Girl Dreaming BEST illustrates, or shows the answer to PART A?

• ...No slip and slide through the grass

• Uncle Robert has moved to New York City!

• I went up a hill yesterday, I say

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How can you tell that Brown Girl Dreaming is not an example of prose?

• It tells a story from the author's own life

• It is written in stanzas, not paragraphs

• It presents a single author's thoughts

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What is the most likely reason the author tells her memoir in verse, not prose?

• To reflect the way people often recall memories

• To describe several events from her childhood

• To tell about the events of her life in order

• To draw about the events of her life

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Where does "Brown Girl Dreaming" take place?

• Greenville, South Carolina

• a farm

• Brooklyn, New York

• Uncle Robert's house

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