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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parts Seven and Eight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) The dregs of Queens, New York.
(b) A lonely tree grows.
(c) The ghetto of Long Island, New York.
(d) In front yards, not to be confused with actual lawns, grandmothers string laundry lines.

2. How do the brown girls feel about the photography exhibit?
(a) They instantly hate it.
(b) They find it appalling and disrespectful.
(c) They agree with the statement that promoted the exhibition.
(d) They think it is mediocre at best.

3. How many commandments are listed in Our Mothers’ Commandments?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

4. How do the girls feel about the store clerk?
(a) They are amused.
(b) They are frightened.
(c) They are annoyed.
(d) They are pissed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One, Brown Boys, the narrator tells the reader they would stare at the brown boys and think what?

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

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

4. What do the brown girls realize they are to their mothers in Our Not-Reflections?

5. Brown and brown means nothing must be explained, as they understand what?

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