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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 One, Last Day, what is the reason the narrator gives for all the rigorous testing and high school applications?
(a) To make some high schools increasingly better and others worse.
(b) To show the students who can make it in the world and who cannot.
(c) To encourage schools to be more integrated.
(d) To train the students in the competitive ways of the City That Never Sleeps. Our home.

2. What do the girls end up throwing at the boys’ head who cursed at Trish?
(a) A chicken patty.
(b) Broccoli.
(c) Carrots.
(d) A slice of pizza.

3. The girls hop into their cars and drive away from their posh Manhattan neighborhoods, through the residential and cultural streets of Brooklyn, and finally end up where?
(a) The dregs of Queens.
(b) At the Atlantic Ocean.
(c) Long Island.
(d) Coney Island.

4. When the girls arrive at their destination after they flee from Manhattan, what do they realize?
(a) They want to swim to another shore.
(b) They made so many mistakes.
(c) They do not want to turn around and go back to Manhattan.
(d) They do not have the strength to return all the way back to their old neighborhood.

5. In Your Own Kind, the brown girls’ parents say they are not what?
(a) Religious.
(b) Patriotic.
(c) Shallow.
(d) Racist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the girls run back home to their family parties from the wealthier part of the neighborhood?

2. In Part 2, Western Epistemology, the narrator speaks of sitting in high school classrooms with what?

3. Trish puts her hands on the girls’ shoulders as the girls close their eyes and does what?

4. Why did the brown girls sneak into The Flea as young girls?

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

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