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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. When the girls give a rude response or laugh to the white boys’ compliments, how do the boys NOT react?
(a) Some seem confused and back off.
(b) Some hesitate before joining in.
(c) Some look at the girls as if seeing them for the first time.
(d) Some do not notice at all.

2. What do the brown girls and boys NOT notice as they cross through Prospect Park?
(a) White women out jogging.
(b) More police officers patrolling the streets.
(c) No trash.
(d) The grass grows thick with rows of flowers.

3. How do the girls feel when they wander to the wealthier part of the neighborhood?
(a) Uncomfortable.
(b) Happy.
(c) Jealous.
(d) Excited.

4. In Thirst, the fathers get drunk on Johnnie Walker and beer as they reminisce with friends about what?
(a) Life before they were married and had children.
(b) Life in the Motherland where they were teachers, doctors, and engineers.
(c) Life in the decades to come.
(d) Life when they first arrived in America.

5. Why do the girls feel the urge to leave the large family parties?
(a) They are bored.
(b) To play in the backyard.
(c) For a breath of fresh air.
(d) They are overheated.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Part One, Last Day, what is the reason the narrator gives for all the rigorous testing and high school applications?

3. When the white boys try to be gently intimate, how do the girls NOT react?

4. In Part One, Duties, what is NOT an example of how the narrator and her ten-year-old friends are good girls?

5. In Ghosts, the girls meet up for the first time in a while, and do what?

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