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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parts Five and Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the brown girls sneak into The Flea as young girls?
(a) They were not liked by the owner.
(b) They liked the excitement of sneaking in.
(c) They were too young to enter alone.
(d) They were unable to pay the six-dollar entrance fee.

2. In Heritage / Inheritance, what does the narrator say the girls are surprised to see?
(a) People with the same color of skin as them.
(b) Altars to Mary and Jesus next to figures of local gods.
(c) So much Western influence.
(d) So many pagan god statues.

3. In Hyper/Visible/In/Visible, how do the brown girls who climb up the ranks in their chosen fields feel?
(a) They are living lies and wearing masks of who they think others want them to be.
(b) They have climbed mountains and achieved greatness.
(c) They will soon hit a glass ceiling.
(d) They fear that they will be found out as fakes and unintelligent.

4. How do some girls who listen to their parents and give up boys because they are a different race or color feel?
(a) Righteous.
(b) Powerful.
(c) Shameful.
(d) Relieved.

5. How are the brown boys like lightning, according to the narrator?
(a) They are both scary and dangerous.
(b) They are both beautiful and dangerous.
(c) They are both bright and shining.
(d) They are both powerful and dangerous.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Ghosts, the girls meet up for the first time in a while, and do what?

2. When the girls meet the white boys’ parents, they suddenly become what?

3. When white boys call the brown girls beautiful, how do the girls NOT react, according to the narrator?

4. The girls hop into their cars and drive away from their posh Manhattan neighborhoods, through the residential and cultural streets of Brooklyn, and finally end up where?

5. The narrator says multiple times that the boys do not cry but then, in parentheses, says what?

(see the answer key)

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