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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part One, Brown Boys, the narrator tells the reader they would stare at the brown boys and think what?
(a) How they hoped the brown boys would notice them.
(b) How ignorant they were.
(c) How much they looked like their own family members and neighbors.
(d) How cute they were.

2. In Thirst, the fathers get drunk on Johnnie Walker and beer as they reminisce with friends about what?
(a) Life before they were married and had children.
(b) Life in the Motherland where they were teachers, doctors, and engineers.
(c) Life in the decades to come.
(d) Life when they first arrived in America.

3. What do the girls notice as they take notes on white philosophers and read Shakespeare?
(a) They do not trust their white teachers.
(b) They never read about anyone that looks like them.
(c) They do not like these famous white people.
(d) They have never read any of this before.

4. What two groups does the narrator say eats the same lunch?
(a) The students at her school and those in homeless shelters.
(b) The students at her school and the President of the United States.
(c) The students at her school and inmates in prisons.
(d) The students and teachers at her school.

5. In Territory, what is NOT a reason given by the narrator for why the brown girls tire of Manhattan?
(a) Central Park.
(b) Manhattan snobs.
(c) High prices.
(d) Fake glamour.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the ethnicities the narrator names in Musical Chairs?

2. What does the narrator say the other boys are?

3. When the white boys try to be gently intimate, how do the girls NOT react?

4. In Part One, Duties, what is NOT an example of how the narrator and her ten-year-old friends are good girls?

5. In Part One, Optical Illusions, what do the girls do with the stolen makeup?

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