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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 Part One, Family Parties, what is a comment NOT given by the narrator regarding the girls’ aunts?
(a) The aunts would hug, squeeze, and give the girls fat, juicy kisses.
(b) The aunts would tell the girls to eat enough.
(c) The aunts would tell the girls to stay thin.
(d) The aunts would compliment the girls on their hairdo but would encourage them to go elsewhere next time.

2. What makes the girls who have stayed angry?
(a) The jealousy they see in their friends' eyes.
(b) The love they see in their friends' eyes.
(c) The pity they see in their friends’ eyes.
(d) The anger they see in their friends' eyes.

3. How does Trish die?
(a) In a car accident.
(b) She is murdered.
(c) A drug overdose.
(d) Cancer.

4. Trish puts her hands on the girls’ shoulders as the girls close their eyes and does what?
(a) Tells them to take care and pushes them back over the cliff.
(b) Hugs them.
(c) Tells them to wake up as she pushes them back over the cliff.
(d) Says goodbye.

5. 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?
(a) Seeing the shock on the faces of white family members the first time they are introduced.
(b) Being mistaken for waiters at their spouses work party.
(c) Assumed to be the one who wears cheap underwear.
(d) Being asked to show ID at events, when their white spouses do not have to.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Art, what was once the thing that gave the girls a sense of peace and safety is now what, according to the narrator?

2. How do the girls respond when the girls receive compliments from the Italian boys on their stoops?

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

4. At the beginning of Part One, Do Now: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up, the narrator lists the responses the girls give to this question.

5. In Part Four, Those Who Leave & Those Who Stay, what do those who leave notice that those who stay never mention?

(see the answer key)

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