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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 does Part One, Bras begin?
(a) With the narrator describing the ingredients common to the narrator and her friends’ kitchens and the songs they like to sing while sunbathing on backyard concrete.
(b) With the narrator describing puberty.
(c) With a description of different kinds of bras worn by various women in the community.
(d) With the girls trying on bras at a department store.

2. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?
(a) They lie and say their immediate family members are the only ones who live in their homes.
(b) They often blackmail each other to keep each other quiet.
(c) They pretend they do not know anything about their families.
(d) They try to forget their family secrets.

3. The girls hop into their cars and drive away from their posh Manhattan neighborhoods, through the residential and cultural streets of Brooklyn, and finally end up where?
(a) At the Atlantic Ocean.
(b) The dregs of Queens.
(c) Long Island.
(d) Coney Island.

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

5. What do the girls say about the brothers who manage to escape?
(a) They should come home.
(b) They find their voices.
(c) They are still the same.
(d) They find love.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Four, Those Who Leave & Those Who Stay, what do those who leave notice that those who stay never mention?

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

3. In Part One, Brown Boys, the narrator tells the reader they would stare at the brown boys and think what?

4. In Part 2, Western Epistemology, the narrator speaks of sitting in high school classrooms with what?

5. How does the author describe the people on Rockaway Beach in Meanwhile, In Queens?

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