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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. In Thirst, the fathers get drunk on Johnnie Walker and beer as they reminisce with friends about what?
(a) Life when they first arrived in America.
(b) Life in the Motherland where they were teachers, doctors, and engineers.
(c) Life before they were married and had children.
(d) Life in the decades to come.

2. What do some of the brothers do who struggle to find work?
(a) They work for relatives.
(b) They return to their old ways.
(c) They become priests, monks, and imams.
(d) They go back to school.

3. What do the brown girls realize about their elite classmates?
(a) Their families worked for families such as these.
(b) They do not have to work hard at schoolwork.
(c) They are not as intelligent as the brown girls.
(d) They will most likely never have jobs.

4. Daughters ask the mothers to tell them the stories of their lives, and the mothers wonder how to tell their daughters what?
(a) What it is like being an American.
(b) What it is like being a woman of color.
(c) What it is like coming from Queens.
(d) What it is like being a woman.

5. Part One, Brown Girls begins with the narrator describing the area in which she and her friends live. What is a way she does NOT describe it?
(a) In front yards, not to be confused with actual lawns, grandmothers string laundry lines.
(b) The dregs of Queens, New York.
(c) The ghetto of Long Island, New York.
(d) A lonely tree grows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator call the girls who find solace in the arts and switch their majors to art?

2. The girls struggle to explain to their friends how they feel about having a white spouse. Why?

3. In Future Tense Queens, the girls go to a photography exhibit opening in a part of Queens that was once miles of what?

4. The brown girls have struggled with the racism they have faced because of being with someone who is white. What is NOT an example given by the narrator?

5. The narrator tells of the training bras the girls wear. From whom did they learn about bras?

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