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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, Other Boys, what boys does the narrator describe falling for?
(a) Boys with golden blonde hair and white creamy skin.
(b) Boys with red hair and fair freckled skin.
(c) Boys with curly brown hair and caramel skin.
(d) Boys with dark wavy hair and ebony skin.

2. In Part 2, Western Epistemology, the narrator speaks of sitting in high school classrooms with what?
(a) Metal detectors.
(b) Delicious lunches.
(c) Beautiful landscaping.
(d) Barbed wire fences.

3. What does the narrator say the other boys are?
(a) All-American boys.
(b) Practically celebrities.
(c) Absolute perfection.
(d) Wanna-bees.

4. In Part One, Brown, the narrator describes the various shades of brown of her and other brown girls. What is NOT a way she describes her and her friends’ skin tones?
(a) Peanut butter.
(b) Sand at Rockaway Beach.
(c) Ash.
(d) 7-eleven root beer.

5. The brown girls show the white boys their neighborhoods. How do the brown boys react?
(a) They jump the white boys.
(b) They are friendly to the white boys and welcome them to the neighborhood.
(c) They either ignore the white boys and talk to the girls or they call out insults to the boys.
(d) They threaten to beat up the white boys.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the girls mostly do at the mall?

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

4. How do some girls who listen to their parents and give up boys because they are a different race or color feel?

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

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