Brown Girl Dreaming Quizzes

Brown Girl Dreaming Quiz 1

1 Who is the author of Brown Girl Dreaming?
Jacqueline Woodson

Toni Morrison

Odella Woodson

Madeline Cohen
2 From what narrative point of view is Brown Girl Dreaming told?
Second person

First person

Third person limited

Third person omniscient
3 Who is the main character of Brown Girl Dreaming?
Jack Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson

Jackie Robinson

Martin Luther King Jr.
4 When is Jacqueline born?
February 12, 1963

February 12, 1973

June 22, 1963

June 22, 1994
5 Where is Jacqueline born?
Brooklyn, New York

Nicholtown, South Carolina

Columbus, Ohio

Abuja, Nigeria
6 Who is Jacqueline named after?
Her father

Her uncle

Her great-grandmother

Her mother
7 Who is Jacqueline's father's family descended from?
Thomas Jefferson

Rosa Parks

George Washington

Jackie Robinson
8 Who is Jacqueline's older brother named after?
Their father

Their aunt

Their uncle

Their grandfather
9 Who is Jacqueline's older sister named after?
Their grandfather

Their father

Their aunt

Their uncle
10 How did Jacqueline's father get a scholarship to college?
Writing to the dean of admissions

Academics

Sports

Affirmative Action
11 Where does Jacqueline's father never want to live?
The South

The East

The West

The North
12 What do Jacqueline's family members not agree about in memories of her birth?
The color of her skin

Which side of the family she looked like

Her weight as a newborn

The time of day she was born
13 Why do Mary Ann and Grace get along?
They are both very religious

They both like to talk a lot

They are both from the South

They both feel a great loss after Odell's death
14 Where does Jack say a Woodson will never sit?
In the back of a classroom

On a street corner

In a courtroom

The back of the bus
15 What two rivers does Jacqueline describe parting and rejoining?
The Missouri River and the Rio Grande

The Ohio River and the Hocking River

The Hocking River and the Yukon River

The Mississippi and the Ohio River
16 How old is Jacqueline when her parents separate?
Two

Three

Five

One
17 What is the title of Part I of Brown Girl Dreaming?
deep in my heart, i do believe

followed the sky's mirrored constellation to freedom

i am born

the stories of south carolina run like rivers
18 What is the title of Part II of Brown Girl Dreaming?
deep in my heart, i do believe

followed the sky's mirrored constellation to freedom

the stories of south carolina run like rivers

i am born
19 What is the first name of Jacqueline's grandfather on her mother's side?
Odell

Gunnar

Jack

Hope
20 What do Jacqueline and her siblings call their grandfather?
Grandfather Gunnar

Grandpa

Daddy

Pappy
21 Which of the following is true about Jacqueline's grandfather?
He is a devout Jehovah's Witness

He was once a professional football player

He is closest with Jacqueline's brother Hope

He loves to work in the garden
22 Where does Jacqueline's grandfather work?
As a domestic servent

In a school as a part-time teacher

At a printing press

As an sharecropper
23 What additional job does Jacqueline's grandmother take on when the children move in?
Teaching

Cleaning houses

Farm work

Doing hair in a salon
24 What kind of stories does Jacqueline's grandmother tell to the children?
African folktales

Stories from her childhood

Bible stories

Horror stories
25 What does Jacqueline's sister Odella love to do from an early age?
Build

Read

Dance

Sing

What is the timeline of black girl dreaming?

It's during the 1960s and 1970s.

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