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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. What is the nickname for the central road through the narrator’s neighborhood?
(a) The “Boulevard of death.”
(b) The “Express train.”
(c) The “Racetrack.”
(d) “Times Square.”

2. Often the brown mothers ask if the girls are listening, as they seem to be ignoring their mothers. What are the girls thinking but not saying?
(a) They are thinking about the homework they need to finish.
(b) They disagree with their mothers.
(c) They hate their mothers.
(d) They agree with their mothers but do not want to admit it.

3. How do the girls’ feelings change as they board the plane to the Motherland?
(a) Bravery leads to fear and uncertainty.
(b) Fear turns to bravery.
(c) Bravery turns to excitement.
(d) Excitement leads to uncertainty.

4. What do some of the brothers do who struggle to find work?
(a) They go back to school.
(b) They work for relatives.
(c) They return to their old ways.
(d) They become priests, monks, and imams.

5. In Haunting, the girls follow Trish but end up where?
(a) The same place they began.
(b) Gasping for air in their beds.
(c) At the edge of a cliff.
(d) In the dregs of Queens.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the girls feel when they see Trish’s face in their dreams?

2. When the girls meet the white boys’ parents, they suddenly become what?

3. The girls tell happy stories of their youth with Trish, but one girl thinks back on the time she caught Trish doing what at a party?

4. 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?

5. What makes the girls who have stayed angry?

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