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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parts Seven and Eight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Interlude, the girls are searching for something that cannot be named. Where do the girls NOT search?
(a) In pockets.
(b) In their babies' cribs.
(c) In the attic.
(d) Along spouse’s spines.

2. In Part One, Last Day, what is the reason the narrator gives for all the rigorous testing and high school applications?
(a) To encourage schools to be more integrated.
(b) To make some high schools increasingly better and others worse.
(c) To show the students who can make it in the world and who cannot.
(d) To train the students in the competitive ways of the City That Never Sleeps. Our home.

3. Why are the girls not surprised about the sea of white in Future Tense Queens?
(a) The change in skin color that goes with gentrification has already happened in so many other neighborhoods.
(b) Most of the brown people had moved to New Jersey or Long Island several years before.
(c) They had been told by friends and family how much the neighborhood had changed.
(d) The girls live in mostly-white worlds, so they are used to so many white faces.

4. What is NOT a place that the narrator mentions as being in her neighborhood?
(a) White Castle.
(b) Nail salons.
(c) Rainbow apparel store.
(d) An auto repair shop.

5. To where do the girls travel for a friends’ wedding?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Miami.
(c) Paris.
(d) New Orleans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do some girls fear motherhood?

2. When the daughters ask about those the mothers grew up with and the neighborhood they lived in, the mothers promise their daughters what?

3. The narrator then describes the Flea, affectionately nicknamed what?

4. What is the reason the narrator gives for why the brown girls would never date a brown boy?

5. What do the brown girls realize they are to their mothers in Our Not-Reflections?

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