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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the family and friends who come to stay with the girls and their families leave for other cities?
(a) They go to stay with other family members.
(b) To see more of America.
(c) They tire of living in cramped conditions in Queens.
(d) For work.

2. Why do the girls’ parents feel it is best that the girls date boys like them?
(a) They do not want the community to talk about them behind their backs.
(b) Relationships with others will never last.
(c) The others are unfaithful and too different.
(d) They do not want to be ostracized.

3. In Part One, Optical Illusions, what do the girls do with the stolen makeup?
(a) They cover their faces in it to see what they would look like if they had white skin.
(b) They follow a makeup tutorial to try to look like their favorite celebrities.
(c) They sell it on the street to earn extra cash.
(d) They give it to their mothers as a birthday gift.

4. How old are the girls by “Art”?
(a) 15.
(b) 17.
(c) 14.
(d) 18.

5. How many commandments are listed in Our Mothers’ Commandments?
(a) 8.
(b) 7.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say the other boys are?

2. What are the ethnicities the narrator names in Musical Chairs?

3. How does Part One, Bras begin?

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

5. In Our Mothers Speak, what is NOT an example given by the narrator of the advice and wisdom given out by brown mothers?

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