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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parts Three and Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Your Own Kind, the brown girls’ parents say they are not what?
(a) Racist.
(b) Patriotic.
(c) Shallow.
(d) Religious.

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

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

4. The narrator says multiple times that the boys do not cry but then, in parentheses, says what?
(a) They scream.
(b) They weep.
(c) They breathe.
(d) They are silent.

5. What is NOT a place that the narrator mentions as being in her neighborhood?
(a) White Castle.
(b) Rainbow apparel store.
(c) An auto repair shop.
(d) Nail salons.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the mothers react to the boys being given prison sentences?

2. Why do the girls run back home to their family parties from the wealthier part of the neighborhood?

3. In Welcome to Mars, how do the girls feel around the elite?

4. What is the reason the narrator gives for why the brown girls would never date a brown boy?

5. In Part Four, Those Who Leave & Those Who Stay, what do those who leave notice that those who stay never mention?

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