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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. The girls hop into their cars and drive away from their posh Manhattan neighborhoods, through the residential and cultural streets of Brooklyn, and finally end up where?
(a) Long Island.
(b) Coney Island.
(c) The dregs of Queens.
(d) At the Atlantic Ocean.

2. In Part Four, Those Who Leave & Those Who Stay, what do those who leave notice that those who stay never mention?
(a) Their jobs.
(b) Local gossip.
(c) Their families.
(d) The important and serious events.

3. In Night, how do the brown girls pay for expensive clothes?
(a) They do not pay for their clothes, as they receive them as gifts, or they steal them.
(b) Stealing from their parents’ pocketbooks and wallets.
(c) Selling their bodies.
(d) Babysitting and tutoring money.

4. Some brown boys call the girls by their real names rather than their American names. How do the girls react?
(a) They work hard to walk away from them.
(b) They shout insults at them.
(c) They laugh at them.
(d) They call the boys by their real names.

5. How much do the girls spend on ice cream on the redone boardwalk at Rockaway Beach?
(a) $20.
(b) $2.
(c) $11.
(d) $8.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the girls now know about The Flea, after visiting Motherlands?

3. Why do some of the brothers struggle to find work, according to the author?

4. Although the girls feel the urge to run away from college, why do they stay?

5. What is NOT an example of how the brown girls traveling to Motherlands look like Americans?

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