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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 arrive at their destination after they flee from Manhattan, what do they realize?
(a) They do not want to turn around and go back to Manhattan.
(b) They do not have the strength to return all the way back to their old neighborhood.
(c) They want to swim to another shore.
(d) They made so many mistakes.

2. How do the brown girls’ classmates respond when they are asked why they chose boarding schools over local schools?
(a) They look bewildered.
(b) They shrug.
(c) They frown.
(d) They laugh.

3. In Art the girls are now specializing in various art forms. Which of the following is something many of them have NOT done?
(a) Taken ballet classes at the Y.
(b) Taken free after-school art lessons.
(c) Sung in church choirs.
(d) Taken private art lessons with local but famous artists.

4. What is NOT one of the Commandments described in Our Mothers’ Commandments?
(a) You shall not be an ugly girl.
(b) You shall not be a dumb girl.
(c) You shall not be a troublesome girl.
(d) You shall not be a loud girl with many opinions.

5. In Part One, Other Boys, what boys does the narrator describe falling for?
(a) Boys with red hair and fair freckled skin.
(b) Boys with golden blonde hair and white creamy skin.
(c) Boys with dark wavy hair and ebony skin.
(d) Boys with curly brown hair and caramel skin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?

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?

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

5. What do the girls say about the brothers who manage to escape?

(see the answer key)

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