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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Part One, Bras begin?
(a) With a description of different kinds of bras worn by various women in the community.
(b) With the girls trying on bras at a department store.
(c) With the narrator describing the ingredients common to the narrator and her friends’ kitchens and the songs they like to sing while sunbathing on backyard concrete.
(d) With the narrator describing puberty.

3. How many hours per week do the art students spend in art classes?
(a) 50.
(b) 40.
(c) 20.
(d) 10.

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

5. What is the nickname for the central road through the narrator’s neighborhood?
(a) The “Express train.”
(b) The “Boulevard of death.”
(c) “Times Square.”
(d) The “Racetrack.”

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator and her friends play dress-up in a store with beautiful clothes, what does a store clerk think is happening?

2. What do the girls give up when family and friends from their native lands come to stay?

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

4. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?

5. How do the girls respond when the girls receive compliments from the Italian boys on their stoops?

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