Brown Girl Dreaming Quizzes

Brown Girl Dreaming Quiz 1

1 Who is the author of Brown Girl Dreaming?
Madeline Cohen

Odella Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson

Toni Morrison
2 From what narrative point of view is Brown Girl Dreaming told?
Second person

Third person limited

Third person omniscient

First person
3 Who is the main character of Brown Girl Dreaming?
Martin Luther King Jr.

Jackie Robinson

Jacqueline Woodson

Jack Woodson
4 When is Jacqueline born?
February 12, 1973

June 22, 1994

February 12, 1963

June 22, 1963
5 Where is Jacqueline born?
Brooklyn, New York

Nicholtown, South Carolina

Abuja, Nigeria

Columbus, Ohio
6 Who is Jacqueline named after?
Her mother

Her great-grandmother

Her uncle

Her father
7 Who is Jacqueline's father's family descended from?
George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

Jackie Robinson

Rosa Parks
8 Who is Jacqueline's older brother named after?
Their uncle

Their aunt

Their father

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

Their grandfather

Their aunt

Their uncle
10 How did Jacqueline's father get a scholarship to college?
Affirmative Action

Academics

Writing to the dean of admissions

Sports
11 Where does Jacqueline's father never want to live?
The North

The East

The South

The West
12 What do Jacqueline's family members not agree about in memories of her birth?
The time of day she was born

The color of her skin

Her weight as a newborn

Which side of the family she looked like
13 Why do Mary Ann and Grace get along?
They are both very religious

They both feel a great loss after Odell's death

They both like to talk a lot

They are both from the South
14 Where does Jack say a Woodson will never sit?
The back of the bus

In the back of a classroom

On a street corner

In a courtroom
15 What two rivers does Jacqueline describe parting and rejoining?
The Hocking River and the Yukon River

The Ohio River and the Hocking River

The Mississippi and the Ohio River

The Missouri River and the Rio Grande
16 How old is Jacqueline when her parents separate?
Two

Five

One

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

i am born

the stories of south carolina run like rivers

followed the sky's mirrored constellation to freedom
18 What is the title of Part II of Brown Girl Dreaming?
the stories of south carolina run like rivers

followed the sky's mirrored constellation to freedom

i am born

deep in my heart, i do believe
19 What is the first name of Jacqueline's grandfather on her mother's side?
Jack

Odell

Hope

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

Pappy

Grandfather Gunnar

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

He is closest with Jacqueline's brother Hope

He loves to work in the garden

He was once a professional football player
22 Where does Jacqueline's grandfather work?
At a printing press

In a school as a part-time teacher

As a domestic servent

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

Teaching

Farm work

Cleaning houses
24 What kind of stories does Jacqueline's grandmother tell to the children?
Horror stories

African folktales

Bible stories

Stories from her childhood
25 What does Jacqueline's sister Odella love to do from an early age?
Build

Dance

Read

Sing