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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT one of the Commandments described in Our Mothers’ Commandments?
(a) You shall not be a loud girl with many opinions.
(b) You shall not be a dumb girl.
(c) You shall not be a troublesome girl.
(d) You shall not be an ugly girl.

2. How are the brown boys like lightning, according to the narrator?
(a) They are both bright and shining.
(b) They are both scary and dangerous.
(c) They are both powerful and dangerous.
(d) They are both beautiful and dangerous.

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

4. In Part One, Last Day, what is the reason the narrator gives for all the rigorous testing and high school applications?
(a) To make some high schools increasingly better and others worse.
(b) To show the students who can make it in the world and who cannot.
(c) To train the students in the competitive ways of the City That Never Sleeps. Our home.
(d) To encourage schools to be more integrated.

5. How do the girls feel when their parents are confused about what they are learning in school?
(a) Fear that their parents will understand them less and less.
(b) A sense of loss.
(c) A sense of power, meanness, and recklessness.
(d) Sadness and worry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old are the girls by “Art”?

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

3. When the girls give a rude response or laugh to the white boys’ compliments, how do the boys NOT react?

4. In Part One, Lunchroom, who is cursing at Trish?

5. When the narrator and her friends play dress-up in a store with beautiful clothes, what does a store clerk think is happening?

(see the answer key)

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