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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 Part One, Brown, the narrator describes the various shades of brown of her and other brown girls. What is NOT a way she describes her and her friends’ skin tones?
(a) 7-eleven root beer.
(b) Sand at Rockaway Beach.
(c) Peanut butter.
(d) Ash.

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 reject the closeness.
(c) Some girls realize they want the closeness, and this boy is who she has been searching for her whole life.
(d) Some girls give in to the closeness.

3. Where do the girls meet after midnight to get reassurance, they made a good choice to attend high school outside of Queens?
(a) 7-eleven.
(b) The narrator’s home.
(c) Dunkin’ Donuts.
(d) The local park.

4. In Part One, Other Boys, what boys does the narrator describe falling for?
(a) Boys with curly brown hair and caramel skin.
(b) Boys with red hair and fair freckled skin.
(c) Boys with dark wavy hair and ebony skin.
(d) Boys with golden blonde hair and white creamy skin.

5. What do the girls give up when family and friends from their native lands come to stay?
(a) Their beds.
(b) Their kitchens.
(c) Their beauty sleep.
(d) Their living rooms.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Amnesia, the girls struggle to get out of bed in the morning, as they realize what?

2. What does the narrator say the other boys are?

3. In Welcome to Mars, how do the girls feel around the elite?

4. How many days before school starts the girls who have chosen to leave Queens begin to question their choices?

5. What does the narrator say about the native tongues of the girls in “Art”?

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