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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. Why do the family and friends who come to stay with the girls and their families leave for other cities?
(a) For work.
(b) They go to stay with other family members.
(c) They tire of living in cramped conditions in Queens.
(d) To see more of America.

2. What does the narrator call the girls who find solace in the arts and switch their majors to art?
(a) Unique.
(b) Unsure.
(c) Reckless.
(d) Smart.

3. Why do the girls not think about what their parents would do to them if they were caught sneaking out to parties and having premarital sex?
(a) Their parents do not care about them.
(b) Their parents are too tired from long days of work to notice.
(c) They believe they are too cunning to get caught.
(d) They are too busy thinking about boys.

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

5. In Part One, Lunchroom, who is cursing at Trish?
(a) John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt.
(b) Marco Varisco.
(c) Joey Gemelli.
(d) Joseph Justin O’Brien.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say the other boys are?

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?

3. In Future Tense Queens, the girls go to a photography exhibit opening in a part of Queens that was once miles of what?

4. How do the girls feel when their parents are confused about what they are learning in school?

5. What do the brown girls realize about their elite classmates?

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