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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parts Five and Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city were some Queens’ residents worried their community would mimic, if the big tech company came to their town?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Miami.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) San Francisco.

2. When the white boys try to be gently intimate, how do the girls NOT react?
(a) Some girls reject the closeness.
(b) Some girls realize they want the closeness, and anyone will do.
(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. What is NOT an example given by the author as something intangible brought back to the States?
(a) Feeling proud of their complexions.
(b) Not caring about having darker skin.
(c) A greater sense of distrust for all things American.
(d) Understanding what life would have been like for the brown girls, if their parents had never left the Motherland.

4. What does the narrator NOT say happens to the girls whose parents catch them sneaking out?
(a) Some are beaten.
(b) Some are threatened to be sent back to the motherland.
(c) Some are ignored.
(d) Some are given up for adoption.

5. 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) Peanut butter.
(b) Sand at Rockaway Beach.
(c) Ash.
(d) 7-eleven root beer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the brown boys like lightning, according to the narrator?

2. Why do some girls fear motherhood?

3. In Night, how do the brown girls pay for expensive clothes?

4. In Our Brothers, why do the brothers receive prison sentences?

5. What is NOT a name the brown girls call their teachers while in the lunchroom?

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