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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of Part One, Do Now: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up, the narrator lists the responses the girls give to this question.
(a) What is NOT one of the responses?
(b) A pediatrician.
(c) The banker her mom cleans for. Rihanna.
(d) An astronaut.

2. How do the girls feel about the store clerk?
(a) They are amused.
(b) They are frightened.
(c) They are annoyed.
(d) They are pissed.

3. 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 call the boys by their real names.
(c) They shout insults at them.
(d) They work hard to walk away from them.

4. How do the girls feel when they wander to the wealthier part of the neighborhood?
(a) Happy.
(b) Excited.
(c) Jealous.
(d) Uncomfortable.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When brown boys notice the girls’ bodies, what do the girls mistakenly think?

4. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?

5. How many commandments are listed in Our Mothers’ Commandments?

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