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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 Everything We Ever Wanted, the girls are now how old?
(a) 16.
(b) 15.
(c) 18.
(d) 17.

2. What two groups does the narrator say eats the same lunch?
(a) The students at her school and inmates in prisons.
(b) The students at her school and those in homeless shelters.
(c) The students at her school and the President of the United States.
(d) The students and teachers at her school.

3. How do the girls respond when the girls receive compliments from the Italian boys on their stoops?
(a) When did we become beautiful?
(b) What made you nice?
(c) They laugh at the boys.
(d) Who are you?

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. How does the narrator describe the songs that vocal students memorize?
(a) Moments from the past.
(b) Beautiful and challenging.
(c) The language of our colonizers.
(d) The languages of love.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Trish die?

2. What do the girls notice as they take notes on white philosophers and read Shakespeare?

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

4. How do the girls feel about the store clerk?

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

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