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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 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 often blackmail each other to keep each other quiet.
(c) They try to forget their family secrets.
(d) They pretend they do not know anything about their families.

2. Some brown boys call the girls by their real names rather than their American names. How do the girls react?
(a) They work hard to walk away from them.
(b) They laugh at them.
(c) They call the boys by their real names.
(d) They shout insults at them.

3. In Territory, what is NOT a reason given by the narrator for why the brown girls tire of Manhattan?
(a) High prices.
(b) Manhattan snobs.
(c) Fake glamour.
(d) Central Park.

4. When the white boys try to be gently intimate, how do the girls NOT react?
(a) Some girls give in to the closeness.
(b) Some girls reject the closeness.
(c) Some girls realize they want the closeness, and this boy is who she has been searching for her whole life.
(d) Some girls realize they want the closeness, and anyone will do.

5. In Part One, Musical Chairs, the narrator tells of how the teachers are notorious for what?
(a) Picking on the brown girls more than the other girls.
(b) Calling the brown girls by the wrong name.
(c) Not having enough chairs and desks in the classroom.
(d) Not showing up to class on time.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Everything We Ever Wanted, the girls are now how old?

2. What are the ethnicities the narrator names in Musical Chairs?

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

4. Why do the girls feel the urge to leave the large family parties?

5. What is NOT a name the brown girls call their teachers while in the lunchroom?

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