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

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

3. What does a white woman say when she sees the brown boy and girl?
(a) I hope they won't rob me.
(b) Who do they think they are?
(c) Why won't they stay on their own side of the park?
(d) Thank God they stick to their own kind.

4. Why do the girls feel awkward when they hug each other?
(a) They no longer know each other.
(b) It has been too long since they have seen each other.
(c) They know it will most likely be their last group hug.
(d) Trish is no longer there.

5. 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) Coney Island.
(b) The dregs of Queens.
(c) Long Island.
(d) At the Atlantic Ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Duty, what is NOT given as a way good girls suffer?

2. 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?

3. Although the girls feel the urge to run away from college, why do they stay?

4. Why do the family and friends who come to stay with the girls and their families leave for other cities?

5. In Part One, Optical Illusions, what do the girls do with the stolen makeup?

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