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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 the girls feel now that they have a white boy attracted to them?
(a) Confused about what to do now.
(b) Their futures are secure.
(c) Both that they have somehow managed to have something precious and feel dirty in their own skin.
(d) They are beautiful and lucky.

2. When the white boys try to be gently intimate, how do the girls NOT react?
(a) Some girls realize they want the closeness, and this boy is who she has been searching for her whole life.
(b) Some girls reject the closeness.
(c) Some girls give in to the closeness.
(d) Some girls realize they want the closeness, and anyone will do.

3. In Part Four, Those Who Leave & Those Who Stay, what do those who leave notice that those who stay never mention?
(a) Their jobs.
(b) The important and serious events.
(c) Local gossip.
(d) Their families.

4. How does Part Six, Meanwhile, in Queens begin?
(a) The girls walk to boardwalk at Rockaway Beach.
(b) The girls reminisce about the past.
(c) With a goat on the Boulevard of Death in St. Albans.
(d) There is an accident on the Boulevard of Death in Ozone Park.

5. In Ghosts, the girls meet up for the first time in a while, and do what?
(a) Have a slumber party.
(b) Go out for drinks.
(c) Reminisce about the past.
(d) Go dancing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is communication a struggle for the girls who speak their native tongues fluently?

2. When the girls arrive at their destination after they flee from Manhattan, what do they realize?

3. At the beginning of Part One, Do Now: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up, the narrator lists the responses the girls give to this question.

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

5. What do those who have left the neighborhood remember seeing in the eyes of their friends who have stayed when they mentioned their accomplishments?

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