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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parts Seven and Eight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT a place that the narrator mentions as being in her neighborhood?
(a) White Castle.
(b) Nail salons.
(c) An auto repair shop.
(d) Rainbow apparel store.

2. How does the author describe the people on Rockaway Beach in Meanwhile, In Queens?
(a) Pale yuppies.
(b) Dangerous thugs.
(c) Tatted hipsters.
(d) Wealthy WASPs.

3. According to the narrator, how is making art a prison sentence?
(a) The girls are trapped in art contracts and deadlines.
(b) The girls do not know how to survive without their art.
(c) The girls know that making art is a lifelong sentence.
(d) The girls hate themselves and the work they once loved.

4. In Part One, Musical Chairs, the narrator tells of how the teachers are notorious for what?
(a) Picking on the brown girls more than the other girls.
(b) Calling the brown girls by the wrong name.
(c) Not having enough chairs and desks in the classroom.
(d) Not showing up to class on time.

5. In Part Three, Welcome to Mars, what is compared to Mars?
(a) The universities some of the girls attend.
(b) Men.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) The dregs of Queens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do some of the brothers struggle to find work, according to the author?

2. How does the narrator describe the mothers of the brown girls in Our Not-Reflections?

3. In Part 2, Western Epistemology, the narrator speaks of sitting in high school classrooms with what?

4. The successful girls are so visible they have become what?

5. The narrator says multiple times that the boys do not cry but then, in parentheses, says what?

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