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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many commandments are listed in Our Mothers’ Commandments?
(a) 8.
(b) 7.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

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

3. In Part One, Musical Chairs, the narrator tells of how the teachers are notorious for what?
(a) Not having enough chairs and desks in the classroom.
(b) Not showing up to class on time.
(c) Calling the brown girls by the wrong name.
(d) Picking on the brown girls more than the other girls.

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

5. How do some girls convince themselves that boys of a different race and color are unworthy?
(a) The girls start to notice how they speak English.
(b) The girls start to notice the boys’ dirty shoes and messy hair.
(c) The girls start to notice who the boys’ friends are.
(d) The girls start to notice how ugly the boys are.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the brown boys like lightning, according to the narrator?

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

3. In Your Own Kind, the brown girls’ parents say they are not what?

4. What does a white woman say when she sees the brown boy and girl?

5. Why do girls decide it is in their best interest to initially ignore the boy who cursed at Trish?

(see the answer key)

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