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

2. Why do girls decide it is in their best interest to initially ignore the boy who cursed at Trish?
(a) He is a low-life not worth their time.
(b) He and his friends are racists and their parents would be upset if they got in a fight at school.
(c) They find the boy's actions funny.
(d) They do not want to be punished by the dean.

3. When brown boys notice the girls’ bodies, what do the girls mistakenly think?
(a) The boys love them.
(b) They have met their future husbands.
(c) Their beauty is their power.
(d) They need no other skills if they have beauty.

4. In Part 2, Western Epistemology, the narrator speaks of sitting in high school classrooms with what?
(a) Beautiful landscaping.
(b) Delicious lunches.
(c) Barbed wire fences.
(d) Metal detectors.

5. In Hyper/Visible/In/Visible, how do the brown girls who climb up the ranks in their chosen fields feel?
(a) They fear that they will be found out as fakes and unintelligent.
(b) They will soon hit a glass ceiling.
(c) They are living lies and wearing masks of who they think others want them to be.
(d) They have climbed mountains and achieved greatness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the girls feel when they see Trish’s face in their dreams?

3. When the narrator thinks about legacy, what does she wonder about some who attend Ivy League schools?

4. When the narrator and her friends play dress-up in a store with beautiful clothes, what does a store clerk think is happening?

5. In Our Mothers Speak, what is NOT an example given by the narrator of the advice and wisdom given out by brown mothers?

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