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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?
(a) They try to forget their family secrets.
(b) They often blackmail each other to keep each other quiet.
(c) They lie and say their immediate family members are the only ones who live in their homes.
(d) They pretend they do not know anything about their families.

2. In Part One, Brown, the narrator describes the various shades of brown of her and other brown girls. What is NOT a way she describes her and her friends’ skin tones?
(a) 7-eleven root beer.
(b) Peanut butter.
(c) Ash.
(d) Sand at Rockaway Beach.

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

4. In Part One, Family Parties, what is a comment NOT given by the narrator regarding the girls’ aunts?
(a) The aunts would compliment the girls on their hairdo but would encourage them to go elsewhere next time.
(b) The aunts would hug, squeeze, and give the girls fat, juicy kisses.
(c) The aunts would tell the girls to eat enough.
(d) The aunts would tell the girls to stay thin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the girls meet after midnight to get reassurance, they made a good choice to attend high school outside of Queens?

2. In Part One, Musical Chairs, the narrator tells of how the teachers are notorious for what?

3. How many days before school starts the girls who have chosen to leave Queens begin to question their choices?

4. How does Part One, Bras begin?

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

(see the answer key)

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