Brown Girl Dreaming Assessment

Brown Girl Dreaming is what type of writing?

• A memoir written in poetry

• An informative essay

• An argument essay

There are ten "How to Listen" poems in Brown Girl Dreaming. What types of poems were these?

• acrostic poems

• haikus

• prose poems

• diamantes

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.

• They confuse him.

• He likes them.

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

Read these lines "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 poem "another way" from Brown Girl Dreaming, what does Woodson's mother bring home?

• a James Brown record

• wrapped presents

• board games

• a new TV

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.

• She has more fun indoors than outdoors.

Which quotation from Brown Girl Dreaming best illustrates first-person point of view?

• ...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.

How can we tell that Woodson (the writer) is telling us something important in her writing?

• She repeats it

• She makes it rhyme

• She separates it from the other lines

• She puts parentheses ( ) around it