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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 The Things We Carry, what is NOT an example given by the narrator for something the girls bring home?
(a) Peppers the length of a pinky finger.
(b) Pastries wrapped in colorful sheets of plastic.
(c) Bottles of liquor for fathers.
(d) Foreign coins.

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

3. How do the brown girls feel about the photography exhibit?
(a) They agree with the statement that promoted the exhibition.
(b) They instantly hate it.
(c) They think it is mediocre at best.
(d) They find it appalling and disrespectful.

4. In Reunion, why are the brown girls so relieved to be around each other?
(a) They have missed sharing and gossiping with each other.
(b) They all understand what they mean when they say they are tired.
(c) They are tired of being around white people.
(d) They miss the old days.

5. In Part Four, Those Who Leave & Those Who Stay, what do those who leave notice that those who stay never mention?
(a) Local gossip.
(b) Their jobs.
(c) The important and serious events.
(d) Their families.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days before school starts the girls who have chosen to leave Queens begin to question their choices?

2. How do friends react when the girls call and say they are taking a trip to see the Motherland?

3. In Thirst, the fathers get drunk on Johnnie Walker and beer as they reminisce with friends about what?

4. When the white boys try to be gently intimate, how do the girls NOT react?

5. In Part One, Duties, what is NOT an example of how the narrator and her ten-year-old friends are good girls?

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