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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say about the native tongues of the girls in “Art”?
(a) They have grown increasingly more important.
(b) They draw attention to the girls and their art.
(c) They help the girls in expressing themselves as artists.
(d) They have become half-remembered melodies.

2. In Great Expectations, the narrator describes the relationship between the brown girls and who?
(a) Their fathers.
(b) Their neighbors.
(c) Their brothers.
(d) Their sisters.

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

4. 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) They are too busy thinking about boys.
(b) Their parents do not care about them.
(c) Their parents are too tired from long days of work to notice.
(d) They believe they are too cunning to get caught.

5. In Thirst, the fathers get drunk on Johnnie Walker and beer as they reminisce with friends about what?
(a) Life in the decades to come.
(b) Life when they first arrived in America.
(c) Life before they were married and had children.
(d) Life in the Motherland where they were teachers, doctors, and engineers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say the other boys are?

2. In Part One, Last Day, what is the reason the narrator gives for all the rigorous testing and high school applications?

3. Why do the girls run back home to their family parties from the wealthier part of the neighborhood?

4. What is NOT a place that the narrator mentions as being in her neighborhood?

5. Some brown boys call the girls by their real names rather than their American names. How do the girls react?

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