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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parts Seven and Eight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part One, Other Boys, what boys does the narrator describe falling for?
(a) Boys with red hair and fair freckled skin.
(b) Boys with curly brown hair and caramel skin.
(c) Boys with golden blonde hair and white creamy skin.
(d) Boys with dark wavy hair and ebony skin.

2. In Part One, Duties, what is NOT an example of how the narrator and her ten-year-old friends are good girls?
(a) They know how to cross the dangerous main road safely.
(b) They tiptoe around the house so as not to disturb their exhausted fathers.
(c) They give their babysitting money to their parents.
(d) They help younger siblings with homework.

3. In Part One, Last Day, what is the reason the narrator gives for all the rigorous testing and high school applications?
(a) To make some high schools increasingly better and others worse.
(b) To show the students who can make it in the world and who cannot.
(c) To train the students in the competitive ways of the City That Never Sleeps. Our home.
(d) To encourage schools to be more integrated.

4. In Welcome to Mars, how do the girls feel around the elite?
(a) Right at home.
(b) Superior.
(c) Out of place.
(d) Uninterested.

5. In A Reckoning, what do the brown girls wonder about themselves as they come to terms with the fact they married people who are white because of their color?
(a) Have they always disliked white people?
(b) Are they more elitist than they would ever admit?
(c) How many other significant mistakes have they made in life?
(d) Are they also prejudice?

Short Answer Questions

1. What two groups does the narrator say eats the same lunch?

2. How do the girls feel when they confess to their old friends?

3. At the beginning of Part One, Do Now: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up, the narrator lists the responses the girls give to this question.

4. Why do the girls feel the urge to leave the large family parties?

5. When the girls give a rude response or laugh to the white boys’ compliments, how do the boys NOT react?

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