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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reason the narrator gives for why the brown girls would never date a brown boy?
(a) Although he is good looking, he is not going anywhere.
(b) Although he is good looking, he does not look – you know.
(c) He is mean and rude.
(d) He is not good looking or intelligent.

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

3. 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 adding graffiti to the merchandise.
(b) They are trying on gowns for prom.
(c) They are doing drugs.
(d) They are trying to steal.

4. Why do girls decide it is in their best interest to initially ignore the boy who cursed at Trish?
(a) He is a low-life not worth their time.
(b) He and his friends are racists and their parents would be upset if they got in a fight at school.
(c) They find the boy's actions funny.
(d) They do not want to be punished by the dean.

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

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

3. Brown Girls is a collection of poems that tell the story of girls from what major city?

4. How do the girls feel about the store clerk?

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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