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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 become half-remembered melodies.
(b) They help the girls in expressing themselves as artists.
(c) They have grown increasingly more important.
(d) They draw attention to the girls and their art.

2. In Part One, Other Boys, what boys does the narrator describe falling for?
(a) Boys with dark wavy hair and ebony skin.
(b) Boys with curly brown hair and caramel skin.
(c) Boys with golden blonde hair and white creamy skin.
(d) Boys with red hair and fair freckled skin.

3. What is NOT a name the brown girls call their teachers while in the lunchroom?
(a) Old-lady bitch.
(b) Dumb and blind.
(c) Dumbass.
(d) Idiot.

4. Why do girls decide it is in their best interest to initially ignore the boy who cursed at Trish?
(a) They do not want to be punished by the dean.
(b) He is a low-life not worth their time.
(c) They find the boy's actions funny.
(d) He and his friends are racists and their parents would be upset if they got in a fight at school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the girls’ parents feel it is best that the girls date boys like them?

2. Part One, Brown Girls begins with the narrator describing the area in which she and her friends live. What is a way she does NOT describe it?

3. Brown Girls is a collection of poems that tell the story of girls from what major city?

4. How does Part One, Bras begin?

5. What do the brown girls and boys NOT notice as they cross through Prospect Park?

(see the answer key)

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