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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. How is communication a struggle for the girls who speak their native tongues fluently?
(a) They do not understand new slang.
(b) They have learned an entirely different dialect.
(c) They are not good listeners.
(d) Communicating ideas is a struggle.

2. In Hyper/Visible/In/Visible, how do the brown girls who climb up the ranks in their chosen fields feel?
(a) They are living lies and wearing masks of who they think others want them to be.
(b) They fear that they will be found out as fakes and unintelligent.
(c) They have climbed mountains and achieved greatness.
(d) They will soon hit a glass ceiling.

3. Why do the girls not think about what their parents would do to them if they were caught sneaking out to parties and having premarital sex?
(a) Their parents do not care about them.
(b) They believe they are too cunning to get caught.
(c) They are too busy thinking about boys.
(d) Their parents are too tired from long days of work to notice.

4. How do some of the brothers have a change of heart in The Lucky Ones?
(a) They apologize to their families.
(b) They return or turn to religion.
(c) They help support their sisters.
(d) They volunteer at halfway houses.

5. How old are the girls by “Art”?
(a) 17.
(b) 14.
(c) 18.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the girls’ feelings change as they board the plane to the Motherland?

3. Why do the girls’ parents feel it is best that the girls date boys like them?

4. What does a white woman say when she sees the brown boy and girl?

5. When some girls say they are not ready to have children, how does the narrator respond?

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