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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The brown girls show the white boys their neighborhoods. How do the brown boys react?
(a) They threaten to beat up the white boys.
(b) They are friendly to the white boys and welcome them to the neighborhood.
(c) They jump the white boys.
(d) They either ignore the white boys and talk to the girls or they call out insults to the boys.

2. When the girls give a rude response or laugh to the white boys’ compliments, how do the boys NOT react?
(a) Some hesitate before joining in.
(b) Some do not notice at all.
(c) Some look at the girls as if seeing them for the first time.
(d) Some seem confused and back off.

3. How are the brown boys like lightning, according to the narrator?
(a) They are both beautiful and dangerous.
(b) They are both bright and shining.
(c) They are both scary and dangerous.
(d) They are both powerful and dangerous.

4. 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 does not look – you know.
(b) Although he is good looking, he is not going anywhere.
(c) He is mean and rude.
(d) He is not good looking or intelligent.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Art the girls are now specializing in various art forms. Which of the following is something many of them have NOT done?

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

5. Where do the girls meet after midnight to get reassurance, they made a good choice to attend high school outside of Queens?

(see the answer key)

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