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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Regarding the commandment for the girls to not be wayward, what is also not allowed to be discussed?
(a) Dating.
(b) Birth control options.
(c) Marriage.
(d) What it is like being pregnant.

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

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

4. In Our Mothers Speak, what is NOT an example given by the narrator of the advice and wisdom given out by brown mothers?
(a) Go to school.
(b) Move back to the motherland.
(c) Have children.
(d) Get married.

5. 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 not good looking or intelligent.
(d) He is mean and rude.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Thirst, the fathers get drunk on Johnnie Walker and beer as they reminisce with friends about what?

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

3. Often the brown mothers ask if the girls are listening, as they seem to be ignoring their mothers. What are the girls thinking but not saying?

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

5. When the white parents consider the brown girls and their families the good, hardworking immigrants, the girls realize what about their own families?

(see the answer key)

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