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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. How do the girls respond when the girls receive compliments from the Italian boys on their stoops?
(a) What made you nice?
(b) When did we become beautiful?
(c) They laugh at the boys.
(d) Who are you?

2. In Everything We Ever Wanted, the girls are now how old?
(a) 16.
(b) 15.
(c) 18.
(d) 17.

3. When the girls give a rude response or laugh to the white boys’ compliments, how do the boys NOT react?
(a) Some hesitate before joining in.
(b) Some do not notice at all.
(c) Some look at the girls as if seeing them for the first time.
(d) Some seem confused and back off.

4. When the white boys try to be gently intimate, how do the girls NOT react?
(a) Some girls realize they want the closeness, and this boy is who she has been searching for her whole life.
(b) Some girls give in to the closeness.
(c) Some girls reject the closeness.
(d) Some girls realize they want the closeness, and anyone will do.

5. What is NOT a name the brown girls call their teachers while in the lunchroom?
(a) Dumb and blind.
(b) Old-lady bitch.
(c) Idiot.
(d) Dumbass.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One, Brown Boys, the narrator tells the reader they would stare at the brown boys and think what?

2. The narrator tells of the training bras the girls wear. From whom did they learn about bras?

3. How do the brown girls’ classmates respond when they are asked why they chose boarding schools over local schools?

4. Why do the girls feel the urge to leave the large family parties?

5. How old are the girls by “Art”?

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