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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. Why are many of Trish’s friends initially oblivious to what happened to Trish?
(a) They do not care about Trish.
(b) They do not watch the news.
(c) They are at work.
(d) They are on the east coast, while she is on the west coast.

2. How do the girls respond when the girls receive compliments from the Italian boys on their stoops?
(a) They laugh at the boys.
(b) Who are you?
(c) What made you nice?
(d) When did we become beautiful?

3. What is NOT an example of the blending of cultures given by the narrator?
(a) Baguettes filled with sweet, minced pork.
(b) Traditional garb draped over western clothing.
(c) Hospitals and schools named for those who came to uplift savage nations.
(d) English Breakfast tea served with dollops of condensed milk.

4. What is NOT a name the brown girls call their teachers while in the lunchroom?
(a) Dumbass.
(b) Dumb and blind.
(c) Idiot.
(d) Old-lady bitch.

5. Although the girls feel the urge to run away from college, why do they stay?
(a) They know it will get better.
(b) They are good girls and the ones who have succeeded in achieving the American Dream.
(c) They are embarrassed to leave.
(d) They have nowhere else to go.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Art, what was once the thing that gave the girls a sense of peace and safety is now what, according to the narrator?

2. In Patriotic, what is the main reason given for why the brown girls debate becoming mothers?

3. In Part One, Lunchroom, who is cursing at Trish?

4. What is the first step the girls take that leads to them taking a trip to visit the Motherland (Fatherland)?

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

(see the answer key)

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