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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the girls feel now that they have a white boy attracted to them?
(a) They are beautiful and lucky.
(b) Both that they have somehow managed to have something precious and feel dirty in their own skin.
(c) Confused about what to do now.
(d) Their futures are secure.

2. What are the ethnicities the narrator names in Musical Chairs?
(a) Kenyan, American, Irish, Egyptian, Japanese, and Mongolian.
(b) Pakistani, Guyanese, Haitian, Ivory Coast, Filipino, and Chinese.
(c) Swedish, Israeli, Korean, South African, Indigenous Peoples, and Indian.
(d) Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Buddhist, and Jewish.

3. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?
(a) They lie and say their immediate family members are the only ones who live in their homes.
(b) They try to forget their family secrets.
(c) They pretend they do not know anything about their families.
(d) They often blackmail each other to keep each other quiet.

4. When white boys call the brown girls beautiful, how do the girls NOT react, according to the narrator?
(a) Some smile but do not believe them.
(b) Some believe it as they have been dying for this their entire lives.
(c) Some openly laugh at the boys.
(d) Some believe it because they know their own worth.

5. Brown Girls is a collection of poems that tell the story of girls from what major city?
(a) New York City.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Los Angeles.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One, Other Boys, what boys does the narrator describe falling for?

2. What do the girls end up throwing at the boys’ head who cursed at Trish?

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

4. In Part One, Family Parties, what is a comment NOT given by the narrator regarding the girls’ aunts?

5. In Part One, Musical Chairs, the narrator tells of how the teachers are notorious for what?

(see the answer key)

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