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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT a place that the narrator mentions as being in her neighborhood?
(a) Nail salons.
(b) Rainbow apparel store.
(c) An auto repair shop.
(d) White Castle.

2. Why do the girls’ parents feel it is best that the girls date boys like them?
(a) They do not want the community to talk about them behind their backs.
(b) Relationships with others will never last.
(c) The others are unfaithful and too different.
(d) They do not want to be ostracized.

3. How are the brown boys like lightning, according to the narrator?
(a) They are both beautiful and dangerous.
(b) They are both bright and shining.
(c) They are both scary and dangerous.
(d) They are both powerful and dangerous.

4. Why do the girls feel the urge to leave the large family parties?
(a) To play in the backyard.
(b) They are bored.
(c) They are overheated.
(d) For a breath of fresh air.

5. How do the girls feel about the store clerk?
(a) They are frightened.
(b) They are amused.
(c) They are pissed.
(d) They are annoyed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator NOT say happens to the girls whose parents catch them sneaking out?

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

4. When the girls meet the white boys’ parents, they suddenly become what?

5. What is NOT one of the Commandments described in Our Mothers’ Commandments?

(see the answer key)

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