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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do the girls feel now that they have a white boy attracted to them?
(a) They are beautiful and lucky.
(b) Confused about what to do now.
(c) Their futures are secure.
(d) Both that they have somehow managed to have something precious and feel dirty in their own skin.

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

4. What do the girls mostly do at the mall?
(a) Try out perfumes.
(b) Eat junk food.
(c) Window shop.
(d) Chase each other around.

5. In Part One, Lunchroom, who is cursing at Trish?
(a) John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt.
(b) Joey Gemelli.
(c) Marco Varisco.
(d) Joseph Justin O’Brien.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the ethnicities the narrator names in Musical Chairs?

2. How do the girls feel when they wander to the wealthier part of the neighborhood?

3. How do some girls convince themselves that boys of a different race and color are unworthy?

4. When white boys call the brown girls beautiful, how do the girls NOT react, according to the narrator?

5. What do the girls notice as they take notes on white philosophers and read Shakespeare?

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