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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parts Three and Four.

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) Coney Island.
(b) Long Island.
(c) At the Atlantic Ocean.
(d) The dregs of Queens.

2. How does Trish die?
(a) In a car accident.
(b) Cancer.
(c) A drug overdose.
(d) She is murdered.

3. What does the narrator NOT say happens to the girls whose parents catch them sneaking out?
(a) Some are given up for adoption.
(b) Some are threatened to be sent back to the motherland.
(c) Some are ignored.
(d) Some are beaten.

4. The narrator says multiple times that the boys do not cry but then, in parentheses, says what?
(a) They scream.
(b) They breathe.
(c) They are silent.
(d) They weep.

5. When brown boys notice the girls’ bodies, what do the girls mistakenly think?
(a) They have met their future husbands.
(b) They need no other skills if they have beauty.
(c) The boys love them.
(d) Their beauty is their power.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do girls decide it is in their best interest to initially ignore the boy who cursed at Trish?

2. How old are the girls by “Art”?

3. In Part Three, Welcome to Mars, what is compared to Mars?

4. Often the brown mothers ask if the girls are listening, as they seem to be ignoring their mothers. What are the girls thinking but not saying?

5. When the narrator and her friends play dress-up in a store with beautiful clothes, what does a store clerk think is happening?

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