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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do some girls convince themselves that boys of a different race and color are unworthy?
(a) The girls start to notice how ugly the boys are.
(b) The girls start to notice how they speak English.
(c) The girls start to notice the boys’ dirty shoes and messy hair.
(d) The girls start to notice who the boys’ friends are.

2. The brown girls show the white boys their neighborhoods. How do the brown boys react?
(a) They threaten to beat up the white boys.
(b) They are friendly to the white boys and welcome them to the neighborhood.
(c) They either ignore the white boys and talk to the girls or they call out insults to the boys.
(d) They jump the white boys.

3. In Night, how do the brown girls pay for expensive clothes?
(a) Babysitting and tutoring money.
(b) They do not pay for their clothes, as they receive them as gifts, or they steal them.
(c) Selling their bodies.
(d) Stealing from their parents’ pocketbooks and wallets.

4. At the beginning of Part One, Do Now: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up, the narrator lists the responses the girls give to this question.
(a) An astronaut.
(b) What is NOT one of the responses?
(c) The banker her mom cleans for. Rihanna.
(d) A pediatrician.

5. Why do the girls run back home to their family parties from the wealthier part of the neighborhood?
(a) They are bored.
(b) They are threatened.
(c) There is life and laughter there.
(d) They almost get lost.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One, Other Boys, what boys does the narrator describe falling for?

2. When the girls give a rude response or laugh to the white boys’ compliments, how do the boys NOT react?

3. In Our Mothers Speak, what is NOT an example given by the narrator of the advice and wisdom given out by brown mothers?

4. 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?

5. How do some girls who listen to their parents and give up boys because they are a different race or color feel?

(see the answer key)

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