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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. How does the narrator describe the songs that vocal students memorize?
(a) Moments from the past.
(b) Beautiful and challenging.
(c) The languages of love.
(d) The language of our colonizers.

2. In Part One, Other Boys, what boys does the narrator describe falling for?
(a) Boys with golden blonde hair and white creamy skin.
(b) Boys with red hair and fair freckled skin.
(c) Boys with dark wavy hair and ebony skin.
(d) Boys with curly brown hair and caramel skin.

3. How many commandments are listed in Our Mothers’ Commandments?
(a) 7.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

4. The girls hop into their cars and drive away from their posh Manhattan neighborhoods, through the residential and cultural streets of Brooklyn, and finally end up where?
(a) Long Island.
(b) At the Atlantic Ocean.
(c) Coney Island.
(d) The dregs of Queens.

5. When the girls meet the white boys’ parents, they suddenly become what?
(a) A celebrity.
(b) Ambassadors of Third World Nations.
(c) Second class citizens.
(d) A threat to the white family’s security.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has taken the place of The Flea?

2. What is NOT one of the Commandments described in Our Mothers’ Commandments?

3. In Welcome to Mars, how do the girls feel around the elite?

4. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?

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

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