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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part One, Optical Illusions, what do the girls do with the stolen makeup?
(a) They give it to their mothers as a birthday gift.
(b) They sell it on the street to earn extra cash.
(c) They cover their faces in it to see what they would look like if they had white skin.
(d) They follow a makeup tutorial to try to look like their favorite celebrities.

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

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

4. What is NOT one of the Commandments described in Our Mothers’ Commandments?
(a) You shall not be a dumb girl.
(b) You shall not be a troublesome girl.
(c) You shall not be an ugly girl.
(d) You shall not be a loud girl with many opinions.

5. When white boys call the brown girls beautiful, how do the girls NOT react, according to the narrator?
(a) Some believe it because they know their own worth.
(b) Some believe it as they have been dying for this their entire lives.
(c) Some openly laugh at the boys.
(d) Some smile but do not believe them.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Night, how do the brown girls pay for expensive clothes?

2. In Everything We Ever Wanted, the girls are now how old?

3. In Great Expectations, the narrator describes the relationship between the brown girls and who?

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

5. What is NOT a name the brown girls call their teachers while in the lunchroom?

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