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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 hours per week do the art students spend in art classes?
(a) 10.
(b) 40.
(c) 50.
(d) 20.

2. At the beginning of Part One, Do Now: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up, the narrator lists the responses the girls give to this question.
(a) A pediatrician.
(b) An astronaut.
(c) What is NOT one of the responses?
(d) The banker her mom cleans for. Rihanna.

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

4. How do some girls who listen to their parents and give up boys because they are a different race or color feel?
(a) Shameful.
(b) Righteous.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Powerful.

5. In Night, how do the brown girls pay for expensive clothes?
(a) Babysitting and tutoring money.
(b) They do not pay for their clothes, as they receive them as gifts, or they steal them.
(c) Stealing from their parents’ pocketbooks and wallets.
(d) Selling their bodies.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One, Duties, what is NOT an example of how the narrator and her ten-year-old friends are good girls?

2. In Your Own Kind, the brown girls’ parents say they are not what?

3. When brown boys notice the girls’ bodies, what do the girls mistakenly think?

4. In Part One, Brown, the narrator describes the various shades of brown of her and other brown girls. What is NOT a way she describes her and her friends’ skin tones?

5. What do the girls mostly do at the mall?

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