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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In Thirst, the fathers get drunk on Johnnie Walker and beer as they reminisce with friends about what?
(a) Life when they first arrived in America.
(b) Life before they were married and had children.
(c) Life in the decades to come.
(d) Life in the Motherland where they were teachers, doctors, and engineers.
2. When the white boys try to be gently intimate, how do the girls NOT react?
(a) Some girls realize they want the closeness, and this boy is who she has been searching for her whole life.
(b) Some girls reject the closeness.
(c) Some girls realize they want the closeness, and anyone will do.
(d) Some girls give in to the closeness.
3. In Part One, Other Boys, what boys does the narrator describe falling for?
(a) Boys with curly brown hair and caramel skin.
(b) Boys with dark wavy hair and ebony skin.
(c) Boys with red hair and fair freckled skin.
(d) Boys with golden blonde hair and white creamy skin.
4. Why do the family and friends who come to stay with the girls and their families leave for other cities?
(a) To see more of America.
(b) For work.
(c) They go to stay with other family members.
(d) They tire of living in cramped conditions in Queens.
5. What does the narrator say the other boys are?
(a) All-American boys.
(b) Wanna-bees.
(c) Absolute perfection.
(d) Practically celebrities.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Part One, Last Day, what is the reason the narrator gives for all the rigorous testing and high school applications?
2. In Part One, Lunchroom, who is cursing at Trish?
3. How do some girls who listen to their parents and give up boys because they are a different race or color feel?
4. What is NOT a name the brown girls call their teachers while in the lunchroom?
5. In Part One, Family Parties, what is a comment NOT given by the narrator regarding the girls’ aunts?
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