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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The brown girls show the white boys their neighborhoods. How do the brown boys react?
(a) They are friendly to the white boys and welcome them to the neighborhood.
(b) They threaten to beat up the white boys.
(c) They either ignore the white boys and talk to the girls or they call out insults to the boys.
(d) They jump the white boys.

2. Why do the girls not think about what their parents would do to them if they were caught sneaking out to parties and having premarital sex?
(a) Their parents do not care about them.
(b) They are too busy thinking about boys.
(c) Their parents are too tired from long days of work to notice.
(d) They believe they are too cunning to get caught.

3. In Everything We Ever Wanted, the girls are now how old?
(a) 17.
(b) 18.
(c) 16.
(d) 15.

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 at her school and the President of the United States.
(c) The students at her school and inmates in prisons.
(d) The students and teachers at her school.

5. What do the girls end up throwing at the boys’ head who cursed at Trish?
(a) A slice of pizza.
(b) A chicken patty.
(c) Broccoli.
(d) Carrots.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the girls feel when their parents are confused about what they are learning in school?

2. How do some girls convince themselves that boys of a different race and color are unworthy?

3. How many days before school starts the girls who have chosen to leave Queens begin to question their choices?

4. At the beginning of Part One, Do Now: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up, the narrator lists the responses the girls give to this question.

5. Why do the girls feel the urge to leave the large family parties?

(see the answer key)

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