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

2. In Part One, Lunchroom, who is cursing at Trish?
(a) Marco Varisco.
(b) Joseph Justin O’Brien.
(c) John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt.
(d) Joey Gemelli.

3. What is the nickname for the central road through the narrator’s neighborhood?
(a) The “Express train.”
(b) “Times Square.”
(c) The “Racetrack.”
(d) The “Boulevard of death.”

4. In Part One, Other Boys, what boys does the narrator describe falling for?
(a) Boys with curly brown hair and caramel skin.
(b) Boys with red hair and fair freckled skin.
(c) Boys with dark wavy hair and ebony skin.
(d) Boys with golden blonde hair and white creamy skin.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the girls respond when the girls receive compliments from the Italian boys on their stoops?

3. How does Part One, Bras begin?

4. The narrator tells of the training bras the girls wear. From whom did they learn about bras?

5. In Part One, Musical Chairs, the narrator tells of how the teachers are notorious for what?

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