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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. How do some of the brothers have a change of heart in The Lucky Ones?
(a) They apologize to their families.
(b) They help support their sisters.
(c) They volunteer at halfway houses.
(d) They return or turn to religion.

2. In Great Expectations, the narrator describes the relationship between the brown girls and who?
(a) Their fathers.
(b) Their neighbors.
(c) Their sisters.
(d) Their brothers.

3. In Thirst, the fathers get drunk on Johnnie Walker and beer as they reminisce with friends about what?
(a) Life in the Motherland where they were teachers, doctors, and engineers.
(b) Life when they first arrived in America.
(c) Life in the decades to come.
(d) Life before they were married and had children.

4. In Part One, Family Parties, what is a comment NOT given by the narrator regarding the girls’ aunts?
(a) The aunts would hug, squeeze, and give the girls fat, juicy kisses.
(b) The aunts would tell the girls to eat enough.
(c) The aunts would compliment the girls on their hairdo but would encourage them to go elsewhere next time.
(d) The aunts would tell the girls to stay thin.

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) How many other significant mistakes have they made in life?
(b) Have they always disliked white people?
(c) Are they more elitist than they would ever admit?
(d) Are they also prejudice?

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a name the brown girls call their teachers while in the lunchroom?

2. How has the photography exhibit been advertised that the girls visit?

3. What do those who have stayed say is the difference between the two types of girls?

4. How do the mothers react to the boys being given prison sentences?

5. In Welcome to Mars, how do the girls feel around the elite?

(see the answer key)

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