From Brown Girl Dreaming

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.

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

• It is long and filled with interesting details.

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

• It is written in stanzas, not paragraphs.

• It presents a single author's thoughts.

Read these lines from “believing,” in Brown Girl Dreaming. But my mother accuses me of lying. If you lie, she says, one day you'll steal. I won't steal. What does the author use most clearly in these lines from her memoir, and why?

• She uses line breaks to show point of view.

• She uses strong verbs to move the plot forward.

• She uses dialogue to show that two characters disagree.

• She uses vivid words to create images in the reader's mind.

Where does the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming take place?

• Halsey Park

• New York City

• Uncle Robert's house

• Greenville, South Carolina

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

• winning awards

• getting in trouble

• making things up

• trying to sneak out

Which quotation from Brown Girl Dreaming MOST CLEARLY supports the answer to PART A? (PART A: In the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming, what is Woodson always doing?)

• ...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.

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

In the poem "another way" from Brown Girl Dreaming, what does Woodson's mother bring home?

• a James Brown Record

• wrapped presents

• board games

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

In the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming, how does Uncle Robert feel about Woodson's stories?

• They make him homesick

• He thinks they are lies

• He likes them