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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the girls feel when their parents are confused about what they are learning in school?
(a) A sense of loss.
(b) Sadness and worry.
(c) Fear that their parents will understand them less and less.
(d) A sense of power, meanness, and recklessness.

2. What does the narrator say the other boys are?
(a) Wanna-bees.
(b) Absolute perfection.
(c) All-American boys.
(d) Practically celebrities.

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

4. In Your Own Kind, the brown girls’ parents say they are not what?
(a) Religious.
(b) Shallow.
(c) Racist.
(d) Patriotic.

5. Some brown boys call the girls by their real names rather than their American names. How do the girls react?
(a) They laugh at them.
(b) They work hard to walk away from them.
(c) They call the boys by their real names.
(d) They shout insults at them.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator and her friends play dress-up in a store with beautiful clothes, what does a store clerk think is happening?

2. In Everything We Ever Wanted, the girls are now how old?

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?

4. Why do the girls feel the urge to leave the large family parties?

5. In Part One, Brown Boys, the narrator tells the reader they would stare at the brown boys and think what?

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