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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?
(a) They lie and say their immediate family members are the only ones who live in their homes.
(b) They often blackmail each other to keep each other quiet.
(c) They pretend they do not know anything about their families.
(d) They try to forget their family secrets.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One, Family Parties, what is a comment NOT given by the narrator regarding the girls’ aunts?

2. What does the narrator NOT say happens to the girls whose parents catch them sneaking out?

3. Why do the girls run back home to their family parties from the wealthier part of the neighborhood?

4. What is NOT a place that the narrator mentions as being in her neighborhood?

5. What is NOT one of the Commandments described in Our Mothers’ Commandments?

(see the answer key)

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