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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 some of the brothers struggle to find work, according to the author?
(a) They have poor educations.
(b) They do not know how to act in public.
(c) They are brown.
(d) They are judged by their records.

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

3. What is NOT a legacy of the brown girls listed by the narrator?
(a) Missionaries.
(b) Bombs.
(c) Financial and personal freedom.
(d) U.S.–backed dictatorships.

4. In Heritage / Inheritance, what does the narrator say the girls are surprised to see?
(a) So many pagan god statues.
(b) People with the same color of skin as them.
(c) So much Western influence.
(d) Altars to Mary and Jesus next to figures of local gods.

5. In Future Tense Queens, the girls go to a photography exhibit opening in a part of Queens that was once miles of what?
(a) Strip malls.
(b) Empty factories.
(c) Grassy fields.
(d) Parking lots and empty lots.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says multiple times that the boys do not cry but then, in parentheses, says what?

2. What do the girls mostly do at the mall?

3. Why do the girls run back home to their family parties from the wealthier part of the neighborhood?

4. Of what do statues on campus remind the brown girls?

5. In Part One, Family Parties, what is a comment NOT given by the narrator regarding the girls’ aunts?

(see the answer key)

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