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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Go to school.
(c) Move back to the motherland.
(d) Have children.

2. 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) Relieved.
(c) Powerful.
(d) Righteous.

3. What is the reason the narrator gives for why the brown girls would never date a brown boy?
(a) Although he is good looking, he does not look – you know.
(b) He is not good looking or intelligent.
(c) Although he is good looking, he is not going anywhere.
(d) He is mean and rude.

4. In Great Expectations, the narrator describes the relationship between the brown girls and who?
(a) Their neighbors.
(b) Their fathers.
(c) Their sisters.
(d) Their brothers.

5. The narrator tells of the training bras the girls wear. From whom did they learn about bras?
(a) Mothers and sisters.
(b) Older friends.
(c) Soap operas.
(d) Magazines and advertisements.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a place that the narrator mentions as being in her neighborhood?

2. How many commandments are listed in Our Mothers’ Commandments?

3. What do the girls notice as they take notes on white philosophers and read Shakespeare?

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

5. Why do the girls’ parents feel it is best that the girls date boys like them?

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