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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parts Five and Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the girls mostly do at the mall?
(a) Window shop.
(b) Chase each other around.
(c) Eat junk food.
(d) Try out perfumes.

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

4. What does a white woman say when she sees the brown boy and girl?
(a) Why won't they stay on their own side of the park?
(b) I hope they won't rob me.
(c) Thank God they stick to their own kind.
(d) Who do they think they are?

5. The narrator then describes the Flea, affectionately nicknamed what?
(a) Le Flea.
(b) The nuisance.
(c) The bug.
(d) The Tick.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old are the girls by “Art”?

2. What does the narrator say about the native tongues of the girls in “Art”?

3. The brown girls show the white boys their neighborhoods. How do the brown boys react?

4. What do the girls now know about The Flea, after visiting Motherlands?

5. What does the narrator say is the brown girls’ privilege?

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