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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. What business does the author hint at almost came to the brown girls’ neighborhood?
(a) Apple.
(b) Starbucks.
(c) Walmart.
(d) Amazon.

2. What is the first step the girls take that leads to them taking a trip to visit the Motherland (Fatherland)?
(a) They talk to their parents about going on a trip.
(b) They call relatives in the Motherland who convince them to come.
(c) They curse out their bosses.
(d) They take off two weeks from work.

3. 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?
(a) The dregs of Queens, New York.
(b) A lonely tree grows.
(c) In front yards, not to be confused with actual lawns, grandmothers string laundry lines.
(d) The ghetto of Long Island, New York.

4. What does the narrator call the girls who find solace in the arts and switch their majors to art?
(a) Unsure.
(b) Reckless.
(c) Smart.
(d) Unique.

5. What does a white woman say when she sees the brown boy and girl?
(a) Who do they think they are?
(b) I hope they won't rob me.
(c) Why won't they stay on their own side of the park?
(d) Thank God they stick to their own kind.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the brown girls see first-hand the devastation caused by the colonizers, what do they realize?

2. How many hours per week do the art students spend in art classes?

3. What does the narrator say is significant about the Covid-19 and brown people?

4. What does the narrator say the other boys are?

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

(see the answer key)

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