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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) They almost get lost.
(c) They are bored.
(d) There is life and laughter there.

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

3. 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) The dregs of Queens, New York.
(c) In front yards, not to be confused with actual lawns, grandmothers string laundry lines.
(d) A lonely tree grows.

4. 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) Sand at Rockaway Beach.
(d) Ash.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. At the beginning of Part One, Do Now: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up, the narrator lists the responses the girls give to this question.

4. What are the ethnicities the narrator names in Musical Chairs?

5. Why do the family and friends who come to stay with the girls and their families leave for other cities?

(see the answer key)

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