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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many days before school starts the girls who have chosen to leave Queens begin to question their choices?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 1.

2. Regarding the commandment for the girls to not be wayward, what is also not allowed to be discussed?
(a) Birth control options.
(b) What it is like being pregnant.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Dating.

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

4. What do the girls end up throwing at the boys’ head who cursed at Trish?
(a) A chicken patty.
(b) A slice of pizza.
(c) Carrots.
(d) Broccoli.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Thirst, the fathers get drunk on Johnnie Walker and beer as they reminisce with friends about what?

3. What do the girls give up when family and friends from their native lands come to stay?

4. What is NOT a name the brown girls call their teachers while in the lunchroom?

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

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