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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 are the ethnicities the narrator names in Musical Chairs?
(a) Pakistani, Guyanese, Haitian, Ivory Coast, Filipino, and Chinese.
(b) Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Buddhist, and Jewish.
(c) Kenyan, American, Irish, Egyptian, Japanese, and Mongolian.
(d) Swedish, Israeli, Korean, South African, Indigenous Peoples, and Indian.

2. Many girls do not know if or when they will be ready to have children but know that to admit this uncertainty would leave them how?
(a) Vulnerable.
(b) Worried.
(c) Angry.
(d) Unfulfilled.

3. Brown and brown means nothing must be explained, as they understand what?
(a) How the other person thinks.
(b) That they have mutual friends and connections.
(c) Racism, prejudice, and white privilege.
(d) How to live together.

4. Why do the girls run back home to their family parties from the wealthier part of the neighborhood?
(a) They almost get lost.
(b) They are bored.
(c) They are threatened.
(d) There is life and laughter there.

5. What do the girls give up when family and friends from their native lands come to stay?
(a) Their living rooms.
(b) Their beauty sleep.
(c) Their beds.
(d) Their kitchens.

Short Answer Questions

1. The book ends with Trish taking the girls’ hands. What do the girls say?

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

3. What does a white woman say when she sees the brown boy and girl?

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

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

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