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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the girls’ parents feel it is best that the girls date boys like them?
(a) The others are unfaithful and too different.
(b) Relationships with others will never last.
(c) They do not want the community to talk about them behind their backs.
(d) They do not want to be ostracized.

2. Why do the girls feel the urge to leave the large family parties?
(a) They are overheated.
(b) To play in the backyard.
(c) For a breath of fresh air.
(d) They are bored.

3. How does the narrator describe the songs that vocal students memorize?
(a) The languages of love.
(b) Moments from the past.
(c) The language of our colonizers.
(d) Beautiful and challenging.

4. Brown Girls is a collection of poems that tell the story of girls from what major city?
(a) New York City.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Philadelphia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the girls notice as they take notes on white philosophers and read Shakespeare?

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

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

4. How many days before school starts the girls who have chosen to leave Queens begin to question their choices?

5. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?

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