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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Your Own Kind, the brown girls’ parents say they are not what?
(a) Patriotic.
(b) Religious.
(c) Racist.
(d) Shallow.

2. What do the girls notice as they take notes on white philosophers and read Shakespeare?
(a) They never read about anyone that looks like them.
(b) They do not trust their white teachers.
(c) They do not like these famous white people.
(d) They have never read any of this before.

3. 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?
(a) Sand at Rockaway Beach.
(b) Peanut butter.
(c) Ash.
(d) 7-eleven root beer.

4. Where do the girls meet after midnight to get reassurance, they made a good choice to attend high school outside of Queens?
(a) Dunkin’ Donuts.
(b) 7-eleven.
(c) The narrator’s home.
(d) The local park.

5. How do the girls feel now that they have a white boy attracted to them?
(a) Confused about what to do now.
(b) They are beautiful and lucky.
(c) Their futures are secure.
(d) Both that they have somehow managed to have something precious and feel dirty in their own skin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What two groups does the narrator say eats the same lunch?

3. What do the girls end up throwing at the boys’ head who cursed at Trish?

4. What is NOT one of the Commandments described in Our Mothers’ Commandments?

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

(see the answer key)

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