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

2. Those who stayed in Queens know that those who left do not care about what?
(a) Their careers.
(b) Their dreams and aspirations.
(c) Being loyal to family and friends.
(d) New York City.

3. Why do the girls’ parents feel it is best that the girls date boys like them?
(a) They do not want to be ostracized.
(b) They do not want the community to talk about them behind their backs.
(c) Relationships with others will never last.
(d) The others are unfaithful and too different.

4. In Part Eight, Brown Girls Ascend Beyond the Final Frontier & All I Got Was this Lousy T-Shirt, what happens to the brown girls?
(a) They move.
(b) They die.
(c) They have more children.
(d) They take care of elderly parents.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The brown girls show the white boys their neighborhoods. How do the brown boys react?

2. In The Things We Carry, what is NOT an example given by the narrator for something the girls bring home?

3. Regarding the commandment for the girls to not be wayward, what is also not allowed to be discussed?

4. What is NOT a legacy of the brown girls listed by the narrator?

5. How do some girls convince themselves that boys of a different race and color are unworthy?

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