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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 does a white woman say when she sees the brown boy and girl?
(a) Who do they think they are?
(b) Thank God they stick to their own kind.
(c) I hope they won't rob me.
(d) Why won't they stay on their own side of the park?

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

3. What two groups does the narrator say eats the same lunch?
(a) The students at her school and inmates in prisons.
(b) The students and teachers at her school.
(c) The students at her school and the President of the United States.
(d) The students at her school and those in homeless shelters.

4. In Part Four, Those Who Leave & Those Who Stay, what do those who leave notice that those who stay never mention?
(a) Their families.
(b) Local gossip.
(c) Their jobs.
(d) The important and serious events.

5. Brown Girls is a collection of poems that tell the story of girls from what major city?
(a) New York City.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days before school starts the girls who have chosen to leave Queens begin to question their choices?

2. What makes the girls who have stayed angry?

3. In Part One, Family Parties, what is a comment NOT given by the narrator regarding the girls’ aunts?

4. 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?

5. The narrator tells of the training bras the girls wear. From whom did they learn about bras?

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