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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 The Things We Carry, what is NOT an example given by the narrator for something the girls bring home?
(a) Bottles of liquor for fathers.
(b) Pastries wrapped in colorful sheets of plastic.
(c) Foreign coins.
(d) Peppers the length of a pinky finger.

2. How does the author describe the people on Rockaway Beach in Meanwhile, In Queens?
(a) Dangerous thugs.
(b) Pale yuppies.
(c) Wealthy WASPs.
(d) Tatted hipsters.

3. Why are many of Trish’s friends initially oblivious to what happened to Trish?
(a) They are on the east coast, while she is on the west coast.
(b) They do not watch the news.
(c) They do not care about Trish.
(d) They are at work.

4. Why do the family and friends who come to stay with the girls and their families leave for other cities?
(a) They go to stay with other family members.
(b) To see more of America.
(c) For work.
(d) They tire of living in cramped conditions in Queens.

5. Why do the girls feel awkward when they hug each other?
(a) They no longer know each other.
(b) They know it will most likely be their last group hug.
(c) It has been too long since they have seen each other.
(d) Trish is no longer there.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do some girls finally decide to have an abortion?

2. In Jenny, how do some of the brown girls feel about Jenny?

3. When the white parents consider the brown girls and their families the good, hardworking immigrants, the girls realize what about their own families?

4. In Part Seven, Jenny, what do many of the girls realize?

5. When white boys call the brown girls beautiful, how do the girls NOT react, according to the narrator?

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