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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. The girls tell happy stories of their youth with Trish, but one girl thinks back on the time she caught Trish doing what at a party?
(a) Snorting what is assumed to be cocaine.
(b) Drinking too much.
(c) Cleaning up after the other drunk kids.
(d) Dancing half-dressed on a table.

2. What do the girls now know about The Flea, after visiting Motherlands?
(a) It is very different from the Motherland markets.
(b) It was similar to markets in their Motherlands.
(c) It sells cheaper versions of what can be found in the Motherlands.
(d) It carries more goods than the Motherlands.

3. How do some girls who listen to their parents and give up boys because they are a different race or color feel?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Shameful.
(d) Righteous.

4. What does the narrator call the girls who find solace in the arts and switch their majors to art?
(a) Unsure.
(b) Reckless.
(c) Unique.
(d) Smart.

5. What do the girls notice as they take notes on white philosophers and read Shakespeare?
(a) They have never read any of this before.
(b) They do not like these famous white people.
(c) They never read about anyone that looks like them.
(d) They do not trust their white teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the brown girls’ classmates respond when they are asked why they chose boarding schools over local schools?

2. How does the author describe the people on Rockaway Beach in Meanwhile, In Queens?

3. What does the narrator NOT say happens to the girls whose parents catch them sneaking out?

4. How do the girls feel now that they have a white boy attracted to them?

5. Overall, how do the girls manage in the Motherland?

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