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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. In Part One, Lunchroom, who is cursing at Trish?
(a) John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt.
(b) Joey Gemelli.
(c) Joseph Justin O’Brien.
(d) Marco Varisco.

2. What is NOT a place that the narrator mentions as being in her neighborhood?
(a) An auto repair shop.
(b) Nail salons.
(c) White Castle.
(d) Rainbow apparel store.

3. What is the reason the narrator gives for why the brown girls would never date a brown boy?
(a) He is not good looking or intelligent.
(b) Although he is good looking, he does not look – you know.
(c) Although he is good looking, he is not going anywhere.
(d) He is mean and rude.

4. In Part One, Girls Like You, the narrator tells of what form of public transportation she and her friends take to get to the mall?
(a) Buses.
(b) Ferries.
(c) Subways.
(d) Taxis.

5. When the white parents consider the brown girls and their families the good, hardworking immigrants, the girls realize what about their own families?
(a) They do not consider themselves immigrants.
(b) They are not good or hardworking.
(c) They have said the same thing.
(d) They have never considered themselves good or hardworking.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Trish die?

2. Of what do statues on campus remind the brown girls?

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

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

5. How are the brown boys like lightning, according to the narrator?

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