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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Part One, Bras begin?
(a) With the narrator describing the ingredients common to the narrator and her friends’ kitchens and the songs they like to sing while sunbathing on backyard concrete.
(b) With a description of different kinds of bras worn by various women in the community.
(c) With the girls trying on bras at a department store.
(d) With the narrator describing puberty.

2. What two groups does the narrator say eats the same lunch?
(a) The students at her school and the President of the United States.
(b) The students and teachers at her school.
(c) The students at her school and inmates in prisons.
(d) The students at her school and those in homeless shelters.

3. What is the nickname for the central road through the narrator’s neighborhood?
(a) “Times Square.”
(b) The “Express train.”
(c) The “Boulevard of death.”
(d) The “Racetrack.”

4. What do the girls mostly do at the mall?
(a) Try out perfumes.
(b) Window shop.
(c) Eat junk food.
(d) Chase each other around.

5. What do the brown girls and boys NOT notice as they cross through Prospect Park?
(a) White women out jogging.
(b) The grass grows thick with rows of flowers.
(c) More police officers patrolling the streets.
(d) No trash.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the girls meet the white boys’ parents, they suddenly become what?

2. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?

3. How many commandments are listed in Our Mothers’ Commandments?

4. In Everything We Ever Wanted, the girls are now how old?

5. How old are the girls by “Art”?

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