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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. Of what do statues on campus remind the brown girls?
(a) Their families.
(b) Why they are working so hard at school.
(c) What they will achieve by the time they graduate.
(d) Their white-only high school curriculum.

2. Some brown boys call the girls by their real names rather than their American names. How do the girls react?
(a) They laugh at them.
(b) They work hard to walk away from them.
(c) They call the boys by their real names.
(d) They shout insults at them.

3. How many hours per week do the art students spend in art classes?
(a) 20.
(b) 40.
(c) 50.
(d) 10.

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

5. In Duty, what is NOT given as a way good girls suffer?
(a) Studying for careers their parents chose for them.
(b) Challenging classes.
(c) Boredom from easy courses.
(d) Difficult clinical rotations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the girls notice as they take notes on white philosophers and read Shakespeare?

2. What is NOT a place that the narrator mentions as being in her neighborhood?

3. Trish puts her hands on the girls’ shoulders as the girls close their eyes and does what?

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

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

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