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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the girls run back home to their family parties from the wealthier part of the neighborhood?
(a) They are threatened.
(b) There is life and laughter there.
(c) They are bored.
(d) They almost get lost.

2. Where do the girls meet after midnight to get reassurance, they made a good choice to attend high school outside of Queens?
(a) Dunkin’ Donuts.
(b) The narrator’s home.
(c) 7-eleven.
(d) The local park.

3. What is the nickname for the central road through the narrator’s neighborhood?
(a) “Times Square.”
(b) The “Express train.”
(c) The “Boulevard of death.”
(d) The “Racetrack.”

4. 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.

5. How do the girls feel about the store clerk?
(a) They are annoyed.
(b) They are frightened.
(c) They are pissed.
(d) They are amused.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the girls give up when family and friends from their native lands come to stay?

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

3. How does Part One, Bras begin?

4. What is NOT a name the brown girls call their teachers while in the lunchroom?

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

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