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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. What is NOT one of the Commandments described in Our Mothers’ Commandments?
(a) You shall not be a troublesome girl.
(b) You shall not be a loud girl with many opinions.
(c) You shall not be a dumb girl.
(d) You shall not be an ugly girl.

2. In Part One, Family Parties, what is a comment NOT given by the narrator regarding the girls’ aunts?
(a) The aunts would tell the girls to stay thin.
(b) The aunts would compliment the girls on their hairdo but would encourage them to go elsewhere next time.
(c) The aunts would tell the girls to eat enough.
(d) The aunts would hug, squeeze, and give the girls fat, juicy kisses.

3. In Welcome to Mars, how do the girls feel around the elite?
(a) Superior.
(b) Out of place.
(c) Right at home.
(d) Uninterested.

4. When the white boys try to be gently intimate, how do the girls NOT react?
(a) Some girls give in to the closeness.
(b) Some girls realize they want the closeness, and this boy is who she has been searching for her whole life.
(c) Some girls realize they want the closeness, and anyone will do.
(d) Some girls reject the closeness.

5. The girls tell happy stories of their youth with Trish, but one girl thinks back on the time she caught Trish doing what at a party?
(a) Snorting what is assumed to be cocaine.
(b) Drinking too much.
(c) Cleaning up after the other drunk kids.
(d) Dancing half-dressed on a table.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a white woman say when she sees the brown boy and girl?

2. When the girls meet the white boys’ parents, they suddenly become what?

3. Why do the family and friends who come to stay with the girls and their families leave for other cities?

4. Brown Girls is a collection of poems that tell the story of girls from what major city?

5. How do the girls feel now that they have a white boy attracted to them?

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