Browngirl Dreaming

Which of these is NOT a major place in Brown Girl Dreaming?

• Greenville, South Carolina

• Brooklyn, New York

• Grand Rapids, Michigan

• Columbus, Ohio

Brown Girl Dreaming is what type of writing?

• A memoir written in poetry

• An informative essay

• An argument essay

True or False: Brown Girl Dreaming discusses Jacqueline Woodson's early childhood.

• True

• False

Which sentence best describes Jacqueline Woodson?

• She feels left out.

• She has a lively imagination.

• She dislikes her family.

• She is the best singer in the family.

Which phrase does the author use to convey her relationship with her sister?

• this is just another one of my stories

• Words from books curl around each other

• We are allowed / to take out seven books each.

• I am the other Woodson

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

• acrostic poems

• haikus

• prose poems

• diamantes

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.

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 … !

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.