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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. Those who stayed in Queens know that those who left do not care about what?
(a) Their dreams and aspirations.
(b) New York City.
(c) Being loyal to family and friends.
(d) Their careers.

2. In Part One, Last Day, what is the reason the narrator gives for all the rigorous testing and high school applications?
(a) To make some high schools increasingly better and others worse.
(b) To show the students who can make it in the world and who cannot.
(c) To train the students in the competitive ways of the City That Never Sleeps. Our home.
(d) To encourage schools to be more integrated.

3. According to the narrator, how is making art a prison sentence?
(a) The girls are trapped in art contracts and deadlines.
(b) The girls hate themselves and the work they once loved.
(c) The girls know that making art is a lifelong sentence.
(d) The girls do not know how to survive without their art.

4. In Thirst, the fathers get drunk on Johnnie Walker and beer as they reminisce with friends about what?
(a) Life when they first arrived in America.
(b) Life in the Motherland where they were teachers, doctors, and engineers.
(c) Life before they were married and had children.
(d) Life in the decades to come.

5. What do those who have left the neighborhood remember seeing in the eyes of their friends who have stayed when they mentioned their accomplishments?
(a) A flash of jealousy.
(b) A flash of pity.
(c) A flash of fear.
(d) A flash of anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. The brown girls show the white boys their neighborhoods. How do the brown boys react?

2. How do some girls convince themselves that boys of a different race and color are unworthy?

3. In Hyper/Visible/In/Visible, how do the brown girls who climb up the ranks in their chosen fields feel?

4. How do the brown girls’ classmates respond when they are asked why they chose boarding schools over local schools?

5. When white boys call the brown girls beautiful, how do the girls NOT react, according to the narrator?

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