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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two groups does the narrator say eats the same lunch?
(a) The students at her school and inmates in prisons.
(b) The students and teachers at her school.
(c) The students at her school and those in homeless shelters.
(d) The students at her school and the President of the United States.

2. The narrator tells of the training bras the girls wear. From whom did they learn about bras?
(a) Magazines and advertisements.
(b) Mothers and sisters.
(c) Older friends.
(d) Soap operas.

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

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

5. Brown Girls is a collection of poems that tell the story of girls from what major city?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) New York City.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Philadelphia.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One, Duties, what is NOT an example of how the narrator and her ten-year-old friends are good girls?

2. What do the girls end up throwing at the boys’ head who cursed at Trish?

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

4. What is the nickname for the central road through the narrator’s neighborhood?

5. In Part One, Other Boys, what boys does the narrator describe falling for?

(see the answer key)

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