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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT a name the brown girls call their teachers while in the lunchroom?
(a) Old-lady bitch.
(b) Dumbass.
(c) Idiot.
(d) Dumb and blind.

2. Why do the girls run back home to their family parties from the wealthier part of the neighborhood?
(a) They are threatened.
(b) There is life and laughter there.
(c) They almost get lost.
(d) They are bored.

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

4. Why do the girls’ parents feel it is best that the girls date boys like them?
(a) The others are unfaithful and too different.
(b) Relationships with others will never last.
(c) They do not want to be ostracized.
(d) They do not want the community to talk about them behind their backs.

5. What do the girls give up when family and friends from their native lands come to stay?
(a) Their beds.
(b) Their beauty sleep.
(c) Their living rooms.
(d) Their kitchens.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days before school starts the girls who have chosen to leave Queens begin to question their choices?

2. What two groups does the narrator say eats the same lunch?

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

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

5. In Part One, Girls Like You, the narrator tells of what form of public transportation she and her friends take to get to the mall?

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