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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. What city were some Queens’ residents worried their community would mimic, if the big tech company came to their town?
(a) Miami.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) San Francisco.
2. What is NOT an example given by the author as something intangible brought back to the States?
(a) Feeling proud of their complexions.
(b) Not caring about having darker skin.
(c) A greater sense of distrust for all things American.
(d) Understanding what life would have been like for the brown girls, if their parents had never left the Motherland.
3. What do the brown girls and boys NOT notice as they cross through Prospect Park?
(a) More police officers patrolling the streets.
(b) The grass grows thick with rows of flowers.
(c) No trash.
(d) White women out jogging.
4. The brown girls show the white boys their neighborhoods. How do the brown boys react?
(a) They are friendly to the white boys and welcome them to the neighborhood.
(b) They jump the white boys.
(c) They either ignore the white boys and talk to the girls or they call out insults to the boys.
(d) They threaten to beat up the white boys.
5. How is communication a struggle for the girls who speak their native tongues fluently?
(a) They are not good listeners.
(b) They do not understand new slang.
(c) They have learned an entirely different dialect.
(d) Communicating ideas is a struggle.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Part Six, Meanwhile, in Queens begin?
2. 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?
3. In Patriotic, what is the main reason given for why the brown girls debate becoming mothers?
4. What business does the author hint at almost came to the brown girls’ neighborhood?
5. The narrator says multiple times that the boys do not cry but then, in parentheses, says what?
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