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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. At the beginning of Part One, Do Now: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up, the narrator lists the responses the girls give to this question.
(a) The banker her mom cleans for. Rihanna.
(b) A pediatrician.
(c) An astronaut.
(d) What is NOT one of the responses?

2. How old are the girls by “Art”?
(a) 18.
(b) 17.
(c) 14.
(d) 15.

3. In Your Own Kind, the brown girls’ parents say they are not what?
(a) Religious.
(b) Racist.
(c) Shallow.
(d) Patriotic.

4. What led to improvements on Rockaway Beach?
(a) More government funding.
(b) Destruction caused by a category 5 superstorm.
(c) Newly-elected officials from the community.
(d) Protests from residents.

5. What do the girls give up when family and friends from their native lands come to stay?
(a) Their living rooms.
(b) Their beauty sleep.
(c) Their beds.
(d) Their kitchens.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, how is making art a prison sentence?

2. Some brown boys call the girls by their real names rather than their American names. How do the girls react?

3. In Reunion, why are the brown girls so relieved to be around each other?

4. The girls who are happy being single with no children shock their parents, as being a parent is what?

5. How do the girls feel about the store clerk?

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