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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. When the girls give a rude response or laugh to the white boys’ compliments, how do the boys NOT react?
(a) Some look at the girls as if seeing them for the first time.
(b) Some do not notice at all.
(c) Some seem confused and back off.
(d) Some hesitate before joining in.

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

3. What is NOT a place that the narrator mentions as being in her neighborhood?
(a) Nail salons.
(b) Rainbow apparel store.
(c) An auto repair shop.
(d) White Castle.

4. What does the narrator say about the native tongues of the girls in “Art”?
(a) They draw attention to the girls and their art.
(b) They help the girls in expressing themselves as artists.
(c) They have grown increasingly more important.
(d) They have become half-remembered melodies.

5. In Duty, what is NOT given as a way good girls suffer?
(a) Difficult clinical rotations.
(b) Boredom from easy courses.
(c) Challenging classes.
(d) Studying for careers their parents chose for them.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One, Duties, what is NOT an example of how the narrator and her ten-year-old friends are good girls?

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

3. What do the girls give up when family and friends from their native lands come to stay?

4. In Jenny, how do some of the brown girls feel about Jenny?

5. The successful girls are so visible they have become what?

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