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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 much do the girls spend on ice cream on the redone boardwalk at Rockaway Beach?
(a) $20.
(b) $11.
(c) $2.
(d) $8.

2. What is the reason the narrator gives for why the brown girls would never date a brown boy?
(a) Although he is good looking, he is not going anywhere.
(b) Although he is good looking, he does not look – you know.
(c) He is mean and rude.
(d) He is not good looking or intelligent.

3. Part One, Brown Girls begins with the narrator describing the area in which she and her friends live. What is a way she does NOT describe it?
(a) In front yards, not to be confused with actual lawns, grandmothers string laundry lines.
(b) The dregs of Queens, New York.
(c) A lonely tree grows.
(d) The ghetto of Long Island, New York.

4. In Our Mothers Speak, what is NOT an example given by the narrator of the advice and wisdom given out by brown mothers?
(a) Have children.
(b) Move back to the motherland.
(c) Get married.
(d) Go to school.

5. Why do the family and friends who come to stay with the girls and their families leave for other cities?
(a) They tire of living in cramped conditions in Queens.
(b) They go to stay with other family members.
(c) For work.
(d) To see more of America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the brown girls and boys NOT notice as they cross through Prospect Park?

2. What has taken the place of The Flea?

3. How do the girls’ feelings change as they board the plane to the Motherland?

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

5. In Duty, what is NOT given as a way good girls suffer?

(see the answer key)

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