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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part One, Brown Boys, the narrator tells the reader they would stare at the brown boys and think what?
(a) How cute they were.
(b) How ignorant they were.
(c) How much they looked like their own family members and neighbors.
(d) How they hoped the brown boys would notice them.

2. What do the girls mostly do at the mall?
(a) Try out perfumes.
(b) Eat junk food.
(c) Window shop.
(d) Chase each other around.

3. In Part One, Musical Chairs, the narrator tells of how the teachers are notorious for what?
(a) Picking on the brown girls more than the other girls.
(b) Not showing up to class on time.
(c) Calling the brown girls by the wrong name.
(d) Not having enough chairs and desks in the classroom.

4. In Part One, Last Day, what is the reason the narrator gives for all the rigorous testing and high school applications?
(a) To make some high schools increasingly better and others worse.
(b) To show the students who can make it in the world and who cannot.
(c) To encourage schools to be more integrated.
(d) To train the students in the competitive ways of the City That Never Sleeps. Our home.

5. In Part One, Duties, what is NOT an example of how the narrator and her ten-year-old friends are good girls?
(a) They tiptoe around the house so as not to disturb their exhausted fathers.
(b) They give their babysitting money to their parents.
(c) They help younger siblings with homework.
(d) They know how to cross the dangerous main road safely.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the reason the narrator gives for why the brown girls would never date a brown boy?

3. Why do girls decide it is in their best interest to initially ignore the boy who cursed at Trish?

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

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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