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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 in the Motherland where they were teachers, doctors, and engineers.
(b) Life in the decades to come.
(c) Life when they first arrived in America.
(d) Life before they were married and had children.

2. What do the girls notice as they take notes on white philosophers and read Shakespeare?
(a) They have never read any of this before.
(b) They do not trust their white teachers.
(c) They do not like these famous white people.
(d) They never read about anyone that looks like them.

3. What do the brown girls and boys NOT notice as they cross through Prospect Park?
(a) White women out jogging.
(b) No trash.
(c) More police officers patrolling the streets.
(d) The grass grows thick with rows of flowers.

4. In Part One, Lunchroom, who is cursing at Trish?
(a) Marco Varisco.
(b) Joey Gemelli.
(c) John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt.
(d) Joseph Justin O’Brien.

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

Short Answer 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?

2. In Part One, Duties, what is NOT an example of how the narrator and her ten-year-old friends are good girls?

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

4. In Part One, Brown Boys, the narrator tells the reader they would stare at the brown boys and think what?

5. When the white boys try to be gently intimate, how do the girls NOT react?

(see the answer key)

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