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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. Why do the girls’ parents feel it is best that the girls date boys like them?
(a) The others are unfaithful and too different.
(b) They do not want the community to talk about them behind their backs.
(c) They do not want to be ostracized.
(d) Relationships with others will never last.

2. In Duty, what is NOT given as a way good girls suffer?
(a) Boredom from easy courses.
(b) Studying for careers their parents chose for them.
(c) Challenging classes.
(d) Difficult clinical rotations.

3. In Art the girls are now specializing in various art forms. Which of the following is something many of them have NOT done?
(a) Taken free after-school art lessons.
(b) Taken private art lessons with local but famous artists.
(c) Taken ballet classes at the Y.
(d) Sung in church choirs.

4. What makes the girls who have stayed angry?
(a) The pity they see in their friends’ eyes.
(b) The jealousy they see in their friends' eyes.
(c) The anger they see in their friends' eyes.
(d) The love they see in their friends' eyes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the girls feel now that they have a white boy attracted to them?

2. What does the narrator NOT say happens to the girls whose parents catch them sneaking out?

3. What do the letters brought back from the Motherland reveal about the brown girls’ parents?

4. In Our Mothers Speak, what is NOT an example given by the narrator of the advice and wisdom given out by brown mothers?

5. To what do the girls looks forward to in “Trish”?

(see the answer key)

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