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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. How do friends react when the girls call and say they are taking a trip to see the Motherland?
(a) They are worried.
(b) They are surprised.
(c) They find it ridiculously funny.
(d) Some friends are confused, while others give words of encouragement.

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

3. Why did the brown girls sneak into The Flea as young girls?
(a) They were not liked by the owner.
(b) They were too young to enter alone.
(c) They liked the excitement of sneaking in.
(d) They were unable to pay the six-dollar entrance fee.

4. When the narrator and her friends play dress-up in a store with beautiful clothes, what does a store clerk think is happening?
(a) They are trying on gowns for prom.
(b) They are doing drugs.
(c) They are trying to steal.
(d) They are adding graffiti to the merchandise.

5. What led to improvements on Rockaway Beach?
(a) Protests from residents.
(b) Destruction caused by a category 5 superstorm.
(c) Newly-elected officials from the community.
(d) More government funding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many girls do not know if or when they will be ready to have children but know that to admit this uncertainty would leave them how?

2. 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?

3. In Everything We Ever Wanted, the girls are now how old?

4. Often the brown mothers ask if the girls are listening, as they seem to be ignoring their mothers. What are the girls thinking but not saying?

5. What is NOT one of the Commandments described in Our Mothers’ Commandments?

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