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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) Los Angeles.
(c) Miami.
(d) San Francisco.

2. How does the author describe the people on Rockaway Beach in Meanwhile, In Queens?
(a) Dangerous thugs.
(b) Pale yuppies.
(c) Wealthy WASPs.
(d) Tatted hipsters.

3. Where do the girls meet to remember Trish?
(a) The cemetery.
(b) Her parents’ home on Long Island.
(c) Their old elementary school playground.
(d) A local bar in Queens.

4. In Duty, what is NOT given as a way good girls suffer?
(a) Difficult clinical rotations.
(b) Studying for careers their parents chose for them.
(c) Challenging classes.
(d) Boredom from easy courses.

5. 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 girls trying on bras at a department store.
(d) 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One, Other Boys, what boys does the narrator describe falling for?

2. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?

3. What business does the author hint at almost came to the brown girls’ neighborhood?

4. In Jenny, how do some of the brown girls feel about Jenny?

5. How do the girls feel when their parents are confused about what they are learning in school?

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