1. Why do the girls not think about what their parents would do to them if they were caught sneaking out to parties and having premarital sex?
(a) They believe they are too cunning to get caught.
(b) They are too busy thinking about boys.
(c) Their parents are too tired from long days of work to notice.
(d) Their parents do not care about them.

2. How does Part One, Bras begin?
(a) With the narrator describing the ingredients common to the narrator and her friends’ kitchens and the songs they like to sing while sunbathing on backyard concrete.
(b) With the girls trying on bras at a department store.
(c) With a description of different kinds of bras worn by various women in the community.
(d) With the narrator describing puberty.

3. In Art the girls are now specializing in various art forms. Which of the following is something many of them have NOT done?
(a) Taken private art lessons with local but famous artists.
(b) Taken ballet classes at the Y.
(c) Taken free after-school art lessons.
(d) Sung in church choirs.

4. How do the girls respond when the girls receive compliments from the Italian boys on their stoops?
(a) When did we become beautiful?
(b) They laugh at the boys.
(c) Who are you?
(d) What made you nice?

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