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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. Where do the girls meet to remember Trish?
(a) Her parents’ home on Long Island.
(b) A local bar in Queens.
(c) The cemetery.
(d) Their old elementary school playground.

2. Regarding the commandment for the girls to not be wayward, what is also not allowed to be discussed?
(a) Dating.
(b) What it is like being pregnant.
(c) Birth control options.
(d) Marriage.

3. To what do the girls looks forward to in “Trish”?
(a) Sharing stories about Trish.
(b) Happy Hour.
(c) Going back to their homes and daily schedules.
(d) Seeing Trish's parents.

4. Brown Girls is a collection of poems that tell the story of girls from what major city?
(a) New York City.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Los Angeles.

5. At the beginning of Part One, Do Now: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up, the narrator lists the responses the girls give to this question.
(a) What is NOT one of the responses?
(b) A pediatrician.
(c) The banker her mom cleans for. Rihanna.
(d) An astronaut.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One, Other Boys, what boys does the narrator describe falling for?

2. When the girls give a rude response or laugh to the white boys’ compliments, how do the boys NOT react?

3. In Thirst, the fathers get drunk on Johnnie Walker and beer as they reminisce with friends about what?

4. Why are many of Trish’s friends initially oblivious to what happened to Trish?

5. In Part One, Duties, what is NOT an example of how the narrator and her ten-year-old friends are good girls?

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