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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. Why do the girls run back home to their family parties from the wealthier part of the neighborhood?
(a) They are bored.
(b) They almost get lost.
(c) There is life and laughter there.
(d) They are threatened.

2. How do the girls feel about the store clerk?
(a) They are annoyed.
(b) They are frightened.
(c) They are pissed.
(d) They are amused.

3. As the brown girls see first-hand the devastation caused by the colonizers, what do they realize?
(a) They are the colonizers.
(b) They are to blame.
(c) Whether they like it or not, they lay claim to both.
(d) They can never return to America.

4. What is NOT an example of how the brown girls traveling to Motherlands look like Americans?
(a) They are bigger, due to having an American diet.
(b) They dress immodestly.
(c) They wear clothing that looks like the American flag.
(d) They cannot stomach the water.

5. What do those who have stayed say is the difference between the two types of girls?
(a) Those who have stayed have never become strangers.
(b) Those who have stayed will never be alone.
(c) Those who have left care only about themselves.
(d) Those who have left can never come back.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Amnesia, the girls struggle to get out of bed in the morning, as they realize what?

2. In Part One, Brown, the narrator describes the various shades of brown of her and other brown girls. What is NOT a way she describes her and her friends’ skin tones?

3. What is NOT a name the brown girls call their teachers while in the lunchroom?

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

5. What is the nickname for the central road through the narrator’s neighborhood?

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