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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 are the brown boys like lightning, according to the narrator?
(a) They are both powerful and dangerous.
(b) They are both beautiful and dangerous.
(c) They are both scary and dangerous.
(d) They are both bright and shining.

2. How do the girls’ feelings change as they board the plane to the Motherland?
(a) Excitement leads to uncertainty.
(b) Bravery turns to excitement.
(c) Bravery leads to fear and uncertainty.
(d) Fear turns to bravery.

3. As the brown girls see first-hand the devastation caused by the colonizers, what do they realize?
(a) Whether they like it or not, they lay claim to both.
(b) They can never return to America.
(c) They are the colonizers.
(d) They are to blame.

4. How do the brown girls’ classmates respond when they are asked why they chose boarding schools over local schools?
(a) They look bewildered.
(b) They shrug.
(c) They laugh.
(d) They frown.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Many girls do not know if or when they will be ready to have children but know that to admit this uncertainty would leave them how?

2. In Art the girls are now specializing in various art forms. Which of the following is something many of them have NOT done?

3. When the narrator and her friends play dress-up in a store with beautiful clothes, what does a store clerk think is happening?

4. How much do the girls spend on ice cream on the redone boardwalk at Rockaway Beach?

5. Trish puts her hands on the girls’ shoulders as the girls close their eyes and does what?

(see the answer key)

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