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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 do the girls now know about The Flea, after visiting Motherlands?
(a) It sells cheaper versions of what can be found in the Motherlands.
(b) It was similar to markets in their Motherlands.
(c) It is very different from the Motherland markets.
(d) It carries more goods than the Motherlands.

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

3. When the narrator and her friends play dress-up in a store with beautiful clothes, what does a store clerk think is happening?
(a) They are trying to steal.
(b) They are adding graffiti to the merchandise.
(c) They are trying on gowns for prom.
(d) They are doing drugs.

4. What does the narrator NOT say happens to the girls whose parents catch them sneaking out?
(a) Some are given up for adoption.
(b) Some are ignored.
(c) Some are beaten.
(d) Some are threatened to be sent back to the motherland.

5. How does Trish die?
(a) She is murdered.
(b) Cancer.
(c) In a car accident.
(d) A drug overdose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although the girls feel the urge to run away from college, why do they stay?

2. When the white boys try to be gently intimate, how do the girls NOT react?

3. In Great Expectations, the narrator describes the relationship between the brown girls and who?

4. In Patriotic, what is the main reason given for why the brown girls debate becoming mothers?

5. How do the girls respond when the girls receive compliments from the Italian boys on their stoops?

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