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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many days before school starts the girls who have chosen to leave Queens begin to question their choices?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

2. Why do the girls feel the urge to leave the large family parties?
(a) To play in the backyard.
(b) They are overheated.
(c) For a breath of fresh air.
(d) They are bored.

3. 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) Peanut butter.
(b) 7-eleven root beer.
(c) Ash.
(d) Sand at Rockaway Beach.

4. When the narrator and her friends play dress-up in a store with beautiful clothes, what does a store clerk think is happening?
(a) They are doing drugs.
(b) They are trying on gowns for prom.
(c) They are trying to steal.
(d) They are adding graffiti to the merchandise.

5. 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?
(a) The ghetto of Long Island, New York.
(b) A lonely tree grows.
(c) In front yards, not to be confused with actual lawns, grandmothers string laundry lines.
(d) The dregs of Queens, New York.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say the other boys are?

3. In Part One, Last Day, what is the reason the narrator gives for all the rigorous testing and high school applications?

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

5. How do the girls feel when they wander to the wealthier part of the neighborhood?

(see the answer key)

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