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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part One, Last Day, what is the reason the narrator gives for all the rigorous testing and high school applications?
(a) To train the students in the competitive ways of the City That Never Sleeps. Our home.
(b) To make some high schools increasingly better and others worse.
(c) To show the students who can make it in the world and who cannot.
(d) To encourage schools to be more integrated.

2. What are the ethnicities the narrator names in Musical Chairs?
(a) Kenyan, American, Irish, Egyptian, Japanese, and Mongolian.
(b) Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Buddhist, and Jewish.
(c) Pakistani, Guyanese, Haitian, Ivory Coast, Filipino, and Chinese.
(d) Swedish, Israeli, Korean, South African, Indigenous Peoples, and Indian.

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

4. In Part One, Family Parties, what is a comment NOT given by the narrator regarding the girls’ aunts?
(a) The aunts would compliment the girls on their hairdo but would encourage them to go elsewhere next time.
(b) The aunts would tell the girls to stay thin.
(c) The aunts would hug, squeeze, and give the girls fat, juicy kisses.
(d) The aunts would tell the girls to eat enough.

5. 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.”

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the girls feel now that they have a white boy attracted to them?

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

3. Why do the girls not think about what their parents would do to them if they were caught sneaking out to parties and having premarital sex?

4. Why do girls decide it is in their best interest to initially ignore the boy who cursed at Trish?

5. Some brown boys call the girls by their real names rather than their American names. How do the girls react?

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