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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. When white boys call the brown girls beautiful, how do the girls NOT react, according to the narrator?
(a) Some smile but do not believe them.
(b) Some believe it because they know their own worth.
(c) Some openly laugh at the boys.
(d) Some believe it as they have been dying for this their entire lives.

2. When the girls meet the white boys’ parents, they suddenly become what?
(a) Second class citizens.
(b) A threat to the white family’s security.
(c) A celebrity.
(d) Ambassadors of Third World Nations.

3. How do the girls feel when they see Trish’s face in their dreams?
(a) Happy.
(b) Angry.
(c) Scared.
(d) Sad.

4. In The Things We Carry, what is NOT an example given by the narrator for something the girls bring home?
(a) Pastries wrapped in colorful sheets of plastic.
(b) Peppers the length of a pinky finger.
(c) Bottles of liquor for fathers.
(d) Foreign coins.

5. How does the narrator describe the songs that vocal students memorize?
(a) The languages of love.
(b) The language of our colonizers.
(c) Beautiful and challenging.
(d) Moments from the past.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Amnesia, the girls struggle to get out of bed in the morning, as they realize what?

2. Trish puts her hands on the girls’ shoulders as the girls close their eyes and does what?

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

4. What is NOT one of the Commandments described in Our Mothers’ Commandments?

5. What do the brown girls and boys NOT notice as they cross through Prospect Park?

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