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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. What does a white woman say when she sees the brown boy and girl?
(a) Why won't they stay on their own side of the park?
(b) Thank God they stick to their own kind.
(c) Who do they think they are?
(d) I hope they won't rob me.

2. What business does the author hint at almost came to the brown girls’ neighborhood?
(a) Starbucks.
(b) Apple.
(c) Amazon.
(d) Walmart.

3. Many girls do not know if or when they will be ready to have children but know that to admit this uncertainty would leave them how?
(a) Worried.
(b) Unfulfilled.
(c) Vulnerable.
(d) Angry.

4. Regarding the commandment for the girls to not be wayward, what is also not allowed to be discussed?
(a) Birth control options.
(b) What it is like being pregnant.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Dating.

5. In Part 2, Western Epistemology, the narrator speaks of sitting in high school classrooms with what?
(a) Delicious lunches.
(b) Beautiful landscaping.
(c) Metal detectors.
(d) Barbed wire fences.

Short Answer Questions

1. Often the brown mothers ask if the girls are listening, as they seem to be ignoring their mothers. What are the girls thinking but not saying?

2. What is The Flea?

3. Why do the girls not think about what their parents would do to them if they were caught sneaking out to parties and having premarital sex?

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

5. The successful girls are so visible they have become what?

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