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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 Ghosts, the girls meet up for the first time in a while, and do what?
(a) Go out for drinks.
(b) Go dancing.
(c) Have a slumber party.
(d) Reminisce about the past.

2. What city were some Queens’ residents worried their community would mimic, if the big tech company came to their town?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Chicago.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Miami.

3. What is The Flea?
(a) A restaurant in Ozone Park, Queens.
(b) An open-air market in Ozone Park, Queens.
(c) A thrift store in Ozone Park, Queens.
(d) A mall in Ozone Park, Queens.

4. How has the photography exhibit been advertised that the girls visit?
(a) A beautiful trip to people of color and their ancestry.
(b) A rude awakening for anyone who still does not believe in white privilege.
(c) Sensitive and life-altering and a deep portrayal of people of colors’ struggles.
(d) Shocking, heartbreaking, and brilliant.

5. In A Reckoning, what do the brown girls wonder about themselves as they come to terms with the fact they married people who are white because of their color?
(a) Are they more elitist than they would ever admit?
(b) Are they also prejudice?
(c) How many other significant mistakes have they made in life?
(d) Have they always disliked white people?

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator thinks about legacy, what does she wonder about some who attend Ivy League schools?

2. How do the mothers react to the boys being given prison sentences?

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

4. 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?

5. What is NOT a place that the narrator mentions as being in her neighborhood?

(see the answer key)

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