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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Taxis.
(c) Ferries.
(d) Subways.

2. What does the narrator NOT say happens to the girls whose parents catch them sneaking out?
(a) Some are threatened to be sent back to the motherland.
(b) Some are ignored.
(c) Some are beaten.
(d) Some are given up for adoption.

3. 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.

4. How do the girls feel about the store clerk?
(a) They are pissed.
(b) They are annoyed.
(c) They are frightened.
(d) They are amused.

5. In Our Mothers Speak, what is NOT an example given by the narrator of the advice and wisdom given out by brown mothers?
(a) Get married.
(b) Move back to the motherland.
(c) Go to school.
(d) Have children.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do some girls convince themselves that boys of a different race and color are unworthy?

2. When the white boys try to be gently intimate, how do the girls NOT react?

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

4. What do the brown girls and boys NOT notice as they cross through Prospect Park?

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

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