Brown Girl Dreaming Practice Test, 1-138

Brown Girl Dreaming is what genre of novel?

• Fiction

• Fantasy

• Memoir

In what time period does the story take place?

• The Civil Rights era

• World War II

• Colonial America

What is the name of the speaker/author?

Who is the author named after?

• Her mother

• Her father

• A famous activist

What is a stanza?

• A group of lines

• A paragraph

• A haiku

• A chapter in a poem

What is the speaker in a poem?

• The person reading the poem aloud

• The poem being played through a sound system

• The author narrating the poem

Where does Jacqueline and her family live for most of Part II?

• New York City

• Greenville

• Columbus

True or False: Nicholtown is the black neighborhood where Gunnar and his family lives

• True

• False

Why does Mother want to move to New York?

• to find a place of her own

• to find a husband

• to escape Greenville

When was the author born?

• Dec. 12th, 1965

• Feb. 27th, 1977

• Feb. 12th, 1963

• Mar. 10th, 1960