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

2. How many hours per week do the art students spend in art classes?
(a) 40.
(b) 20.
(c) 50.
(d) 10.

3. When the narrator thinks about legacy, what does she wonder about some who attend Ivy League schools?
(a) How many are mediocre students.
(b) How many paid their way into these schools.
(c) How many commit suicide.
(d) How many do not graduate.

4. What is the nickname for the central road through the narrator’s neighborhood?
(a) “Times Square.”
(b) The “Racetrack.”
(c) The “Express train.”
(d) The “Boulevard of death.”

5. Why do the girls run back home to their family parties from the wealthier part of the neighborhood?
(a) They are bored.
(b) They are threatened.
(c) They almost get lost.
(d) There is life and laughter there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the Commandments described in Our Mothers’ Commandments?

2. In Part One, Girls Like You, the narrator tells of what form of public transportation she and her friends take to get to the mall?

3. What do those who have left the neighborhood remember seeing in the eyes of their friends who have stayed when they mentioned their accomplishments?

4. How old are the girls by “Art”?

5. What do the brown girls and boys NOT notice as they cross through Prospect Park?

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