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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When brown boys notice the girls’ bodies, what do the girls mistakenly think?
(a) They have met their future husbands.
(b) The boys love them.
(c) They need no other skills if they have beauty.
(d) Their beauty is their power.

2. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?
(a) They lie and say their immediate family members are the only ones who live in their homes.
(b) They often blackmail each other to keep each other quiet.
(c) They try to forget their family secrets.
(d) They pretend they do not know anything about their families.

3. When the white boys try to be gently intimate, how do the girls NOT react?
(a) Some girls reject the closeness.
(b) Some girls realize they want the closeness, and this boy is who she has been searching for her whole life.
(c) Some girls realize they want the closeness, and anyone will do.
(d) Some girls give in to the closeness.

4. What two groups does the narrator say eats the same lunch?
(a) The students at her school and those in homeless shelters.
(b) The students and teachers at her school.
(c) The students at her school and the President of the United States.
(d) The students at her school and inmates in prisons.

5. What is the nickname for the central road through the narrator’s neighborhood?
(a) “Times Square.”
(b) The “Express train.”
(c) The “Racetrack.”
(d) The “Boulevard of death.”

Short Answer Questions

1. In Territory, what is NOT a reason given by the narrator for why the brown girls tire of Manhattan?

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

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

4. In Part One, Family Parties, what is a comment NOT given by the narrator regarding the girls’ aunts?

5. How does Part One, Bras begin?

(see the answer key)

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