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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. In Part One, Duties, what is NOT an example of how the narrator and her ten-year-old friends are good girls?
(a) They know how to cross the dangerous main road safely.
(b) They tiptoe around the house so as not to disturb their exhausted fathers.
(c) They give their babysitting money to their parents.
(d) They help younger siblings with homework.

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

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

4. Why do girls decide it is in their best interest to initially ignore the boy who cursed at Trish?
(a) He is a low-life not worth their time.
(b) They do not want to be punished by the dean.
(c) They find the boy's actions funny.
(d) He and his friends are racists and their parents would be upset if they got in a fight at school.

5. In Great Expectations, the narrator describes the relationship between the brown girls and who?
(a) Their neighbors.
(b) Their fathers.
(c) Their sisters.
(d) Their brothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says multiple times that the boys do not cry but then, in parentheses, says what?

2. How many days before school starts the girls who have chosen to leave Queens begin to question their choices?

3. When some girls say they are not ready to have children, how does the narrator respond?

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

5. Why do the family and friends who come to stay with the girls and their families leave for other cities?

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