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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. Of what do statues on campus remind the brown girls?
(a) Their families.
(b) What they will achieve by the time they graduate.
(c) Their white-only high school curriculum.
(d) Why they are working so hard at school.

2. What do the girls mostly do at the mall?
(a) Eat junk food.
(b) Window shop.
(c) Chase each other around.
(d) Try out perfumes.

3. How does the author describe the people on Rockaway Beach in Meanwhile, In Queens?
(a) Wealthy WASPs.
(b) Pale yuppies.
(c) Tatted hipsters.
(d) Dangerous thugs.

4. What is NOT a legacy of the brown girls listed by the narrator?
(a) Missionaries.
(b) Financial and personal freedom.
(c) U.S.–backed dictatorships.
(d) Bombs.

5. Many girls do not know if or when they will be ready to have children but know that to admit this uncertainty would leave them how?
(a) Angry.
(b) Worried.
(c) Vulnerable.
(d) Unfulfilled.

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. In Welcome to Mars, how do the girls feel around the elite?

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

4. What do some of the brothers do who struggle to find work?

5. The brown girls show the white boys their neighborhoods. How do the brown boys react?

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