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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the reason the narrator gives for why the brown girls would never date a brown boy?
(a) He is not good looking or intelligent.
(b) He is mean and rude.
(c) Although he is good looking, he does not look – you know.
(d) Although he is good looking, he is not going anywhere.

3. In Art the girls are now specializing in various art forms. Which of the following is something many of them have NOT done?
(a) Taken free after-school art lessons.
(b) Sung in church choirs.
(c) Taken ballet classes at the Y.
(d) Taken private art lessons with local but famous artists.

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

5. When the white parents consider the brown girls and their families the good, hardworking immigrants, the girls realize what about their own families?
(a) They are not good or hardworking.
(b) They have said the same thing.
(c) They do not consider themselves immigrants.
(d) They have never considered themselves good or hardworking.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the nickname for the central road through the narrator’s neighborhood?

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

4. In Part One, Musical Chairs, the narrator tells of how the teachers are notorious for what?

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

(see the answer key)

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