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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. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?
(a) They often blackmail each other to keep each other quiet.
(b) They try to forget their family secrets.
(c) They pretend they do not know anything about their families.
(d) They lie and say their immediate family members are the only ones who live in their homes.

2. Where do the girls meet to remember Trish?
(a) The cemetery.
(b) A local bar in Queens.
(c) Their old elementary school playground.
(d) Her parents’ home on Long Island.

3. Why do the family and friends who come to stay with the girls and their families leave for other cities?
(a) They tire of living in cramped conditions in Queens.
(b) They go to stay with other family members.
(c) To see more of America.
(d) For work.

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

5. In Part One, Optical Illusions, what do the girls do with the stolen makeup?
(a) They sell it on the street to earn extra cash.
(b) They give it to their mothers as a birthday gift.
(c) They follow a makeup tutorial to try to look like their favorite celebrities.
(d) They cover their faces in it to see what they would look like if they had white skin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Our Brothers, why do the brothers receive prison sentences?

2. Part One, Brown Girls begins with the narrator describing the area in which she and her friends live. What is a way she does NOT describe it?

3. In Amnesia, the girls struggle to get out of bed in the morning, as they realize what?

4. How do the girls feel when they see Trish’s face in their dreams?

5. When the narrator thinks about legacy, what does she wonder about some who attend Ivy League schools?

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