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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part One, Brown, the narrator describes the various shades of brown of her and other brown girls. What is NOT a way she describes her and her friends’ skin tones?
(a) Peanut butter.
(b) 7-eleven root beer.
(c) Ash.
(d) Sand at Rockaway Beach.

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

3. What is NOT a name the brown girls call their teachers while in the lunchroom?
(a) Dumbass.
(b) Idiot.
(c) Old-lady bitch.
(d) Dumb and blind.

4. Where do the girls meet after midnight to get reassurance, they made a good choice to attend high school outside of Queens?
(a) Dunkin’ Donuts.
(b) 7-eleven.
(c) The local park.
(d) The narrator’s home.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the girls feel about the store clerk?

3. Why do the girls feel the urge to leave the large family parties?

4. What is NOT a place that the narrator mentions as being in her neighborhood?

5. Brown Girls is a collection of poems that tell the story of girls from what major city?

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