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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. Although the girls feel the urge to run away from college, why do they stay?
(a) They are good girls and the ones who have succeeded in achieving the American Dream.
(b) They know it will get better.
(c) They are embarrassed to leave.
(d) They have nowhere else to go.

2. The girls hop into their cars and drive away from their posh Manhattan neighborhoods, through the residential and cultural streets of Brooklyn, and finally end up where?
(a) At the Atlantic Ocean.
(b) Coney Island.
(c) Long Island.
(d) The dregs of Queens.

3. In Part One, Optical Illusions, what do the girls do with the stolen makeup?
(a) They follow a makeup tutorial to try to look like their favorite celebrities.
(b) They cover their faces in it to see what they would look like if they had white skin.
(c) They sell it on the street to earn extra cash.
(d) They give it to their mothers as a birthday gift.

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

5. In Art the girls are now specializing in various art forms. Which of the following is something many of them have NOT done?
(a) Taken private art lessons with local but famous artists.
(b) Taken free after-school art lessons.
(c) Sung in church choirs.
(d) Taken ballet classes at the Y.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Four, Those Who Leave & Those Who Stay, what do those who leave notice that those who stay never mention?

2. What does the narrator say the other boys are?

3. How many commandments are listed in Our Mothers’ Commandments?

4. The girls tell happy stories of their youth with Trish, but one girl thinks back on the time she caught Trish doing what at a party?

5. In Territory, what is NOT a reason given by the narrator for why the brown girls tire of Manhattan?

(see the answer key)

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