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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the nickname for the central road through the narrator’s neighborhood?
(a) The “Racetrack.”
(b) The “Express train.”
(c) The “Boulevard of death.”
(d) “Times Square.”

2. How many days before school starts the girls who have chosen to leave Queens begin to question their choices?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

3. In Part One, Last Day, what is the reason the narrator gives for all the rigorous testing and high school applications?
(a) To train the students in the competitive ways of the City That Never Sleeps. Our home.
(b) To make some high schools increasingly better and others worse.
(c) To show the students who can make it in the world and who cannot.
(d) To encourage schools to be more integrated.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the girls give up when family and friends from their native lands come to stay?

2. In Part One, Family Parties, what is a comment NOT given by the narrator regarding the girls’ aunts?

3. 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.

4. In Part One, Lunchroom, who is cursing at Trish?

5. What is NOT a name the brown girls call their teachers while in the lunchroom?

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