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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. When the narrator thinks about legacy, what does she wonder about some who attend Ivy League schools?
(a) How many are mediocre students.
(b) How many commit suicide.
(c) How many paid their way into these schools.
(d) How many do not graduate.

2. How do the mothers react to the boys being given prison sentences?
(a) They beat their sons.
(b) They are angry and silent.
(c) They scream curses at their sons.
(d) They weep uncontrollably.

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

4. How do the girls feel now that they have a white boy attracted to them?
(a) Both that they have somehow managed to have something precious and feel dirty in their own skin.
(b) Confused about what to do now.
(c) Their futures are secure.
(d) They are beautiful and lucky.

5. In Everything We Ever Wanted, the girls are now how old?
(a) 17.
(b) 16.
(c) 15.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is communication a struggle for the girls who speak their native tongues fluently?

2. What do those who have left the neighborhood remember seeing in the eyes of their friends who have stayed when they mentioned their accomplishments?

3. How does Part Six, Meanwhile, in Queens begin?

4. What is NOT a place that the narrator mentions as being in her neighborhood?

5. The narrator tells of the training bras the girls wear. From whom did they learn about bras?

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