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WorksheetsBrown Girl Dreaming/Lit Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 16mins
Where does the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming take place?
Halsey Park
New York City
Uncle Robert's house
Greenville, South Carolina
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
Aside from the rain, what is the "brooklyn rain" also about?
The poet's dad
The poet's uncle
The poet moving to a new city
The poet's sister
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 line or lines in "brooklyn rain" from Brown Girl Dreaming most clearly support the statement "staying indoors bores her"?
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...
Down south already feels like a long time ago...
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 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.
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.
In the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming, what is Woodson always doing?
winning awards
getting in trouble
making things up
trying to sneak out
The James Brown CD, earrings and other presents come from . . .
Odella
Uncle Julio
Uncle Robert
Woodson's mother
How would you describe Uncle Robert's character?
Fun-loving and supportive
Distant and lonely
Strict and hard-hearted
Gloomy and depressing
In the poem "sometimes" how does the POET respond to the father being gone?
She accepts it and has come to terms with it
She makes up stories
In "sometimes" how does the Sister respond to the father being gone.
She is devastated and makes up stories
She accepts it and has come to terms with it
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.
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.
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
Which of these sentences contains the best example of onomatopoeia?
The dice clattered onto the tabletop.
We slid across the floor in our socks.
Here is a book of nursery rhymes.
It's raining cats and dogs outside.
What makes Brown Girl Dreaming different from most other memoirs?
It is made up of poems.
It takes the form of a letter.
It has a first-person point of view.
It tells about the author’s childhood experiences.
a writer tells a true story from a specific period in his or her own life
mood
genre
point of view
memoir
