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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, Girls Like You, the narrator tells of what form of public transportation she and her friends take to get to the mall?
(a) Taxis.
(b) Buses.
(c) Ferries.
(d) Subways.

2. Brown Girls is a collection of poems that tell the story of girls from what major city?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York City.
(d) Los Angeles.

3. 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 do not consider themselves immigrants.
(c) They have said the same thing.
(d) They have never considered themselves good or hardworking.

4. Part One, Brown Girls begins with the narrator describing the area in which she and her friends live. What is a way she does NOT describe it?
(a) A lonely tree grows.
(b) In front yards, not to be confused with actual lawns, grandmothers string laundry lines.
(c) The dregs of Queens, New York.
(d) The ghetto of Long Island, New York.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The brown girls show the white boys their neighborhoods. How do the brown boys react?

2. How does Part One, Bras begin?

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

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

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

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