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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parts Three and Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Often the brown mothers ask if the girls are listening, as they seem to be ignoring their mothers. What are the girls thinking but not saying?
(a) They disagree with their mothers.
(b) They are thinking about the homework they need to finish.
(c) They hate their mothers.
(d) They agree with their mothers but do not want to admit it.

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

3. In Part One, Duties, what is NOT an example of how the narrator and her ten-year-old friends are good girls?
(a) They tiptoe around the house so as not to disturb their exhausted fathers.
(b) They give their babysitting money to their parents.
(c) They know how to cross the dangerous main road safely.
(d) They help younger siblings with homework.

4. In Amnesia, the girls struggle to get out of bed in the morning, as they realize what?
(a) They forgot to buy coffee.
(b) They must go to work.
(c) Everyone they now interact with daily is white.
(d) They have no friends.

5. What do the girls give up when family and friends from their native lands come to stay?
(a) Their beds.
(b) Their living rooms.
(c) Their kitchens.
(d) Their beauty sleep.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the nickname for the central road through the narrator’s neighborhood?

3. What is NOT a legacy of the brown girls listed by the narrator?

4. Why are many of Trish’s friends initially oblivious to what happened to Trish?

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

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