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

2. What is NOT a name the brown girls call their teachers while in the lunchroom?
(a) Old-lady bitch.
(b) Dumbass.
(c) Dumb and blind.
(d) Idiot.

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

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

5. What is NOT a place that the narrator mentions as being in her neighborhood?
(a) White Castle.
(b) Nail salons.
(c) An auto repair shop.
(d) Rainbow apparel store.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One, Girls Like You, the narrator tells of what form of public transportation she and her friends take to get to the mall?

2. 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?

3. What two groups does the narrator say eats the same lunch?

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

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

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