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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. The successful girls are so visible they have become what?
(a) Uncomfortable.
(b) Unusual.
(c) Invisible.
(d) Unsuccessful.

2. What does the narrator call the girls who find solace in the arts and switch their majors to art?
(a) Unique.
(b) Reckless.
(c) Smart.
(d) Unsure.

3. 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) 7-eleven root beer.
(b) Peanut butter.
(c) Ash.
(d) Sand at Rockaway Beach.

4. What is NOT one of the Commandments described in Our Mothers’ Commandments?
(a) You shall not be a loud girl with many opinions.
(b) You shall not be a troublesome girl.
(c) You shall not be a dumb girl.
(d) You shall not be an ugly girl.

5. What do the girls now know about The Flea, after visiting Motherlands?
(a) It carries more goods than the Motherlands.
(b) It was similar to markets in their Motherlands.
(c) It is very different from the Motherland markets.
(d) It sells cheaper versions of what can be found in the Motherlands.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the girls leave for home, what do they realize about home?

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

3. When the white parents consider the brown girls and their families the good, hardworking immigrants, the girls realize what about their own families?

4. Why do the girls run back home to their family parties from the wealthier part of the neighborhood?

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

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