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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. In Part 2, Western Epistemology, the narrator speaks of sitting in high school classrooms with what?
(a) Barbed wire fences.
(b) Beautiful landscaping.
(c) Delicious lunches.
(d) Metal detectors.

2. When white boys call the brown girls beautiful, how do the girls NOT react, according to the narrator?
(a) Some believe it as they have been dying for this their entire lives.
(b) Some believe it because they know their own worth.
(c) Some smile but do not believe them.
(d) Some openly laugh at the boys.

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

4. How does Part One, Bras begin?
(a) With the narrator describing puberty.
(b) With a description of different kinds of bras worn by various women in the community.
(c) With the narrator describing the ingredients common to the narrator and her friends’ kitchens and the songs they like to sing while sunbathing on backyard concrete.
(d) With the girls trying on bras at a department store.

5. What do the girls say about the brothers who manage to escape?
(a) They find their voices.
(b) They should come home.
(c) They are still the same.
(d) They find love.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Everything We Ever Wanted, the girls are now how old?

2. When brown boys notice the girls’ bodies, what do the girls mistakenly think?

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

4. What is the reason the narrator gives for why the brown girls would never date a brown boy?

5. What is NOT an example of the blending of cultures given by the narrator?

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