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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 Jenny, how do some of the brown girls feel about Jenny?
(a) They are jealous of her.
(b) They feel sorry for her.
(c) They hate her.
(d) They are in love with her.

2. How does the narrator describe the mothers of the brown girls in Our Not-Reflections?
(a) Resilient, strong, determined.
(b) Just like their daughters.
(c) Sweet, doting grandmothers.
(d) Weak, nagging, and tired.

3. How do the girls feel when they see Trish’s face in their dreams?
(a) Sad.
(b) Happy.
(c) Angry.
(d) Scared.

4. What do the girls give up when family and friends from their native lands come to stay?
(a) Their beauty sleep.
(b) Their kitchens.
(c) Their beds.
(d) Their living rooms.

5. Why do the girls run back home to their family parties from the wealthier part of the neighborhood?
(a) There is life and laughter there.
(b) They are threatened.
(c) They are bored.
(d) They almost get lost.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Our Not-Reflections, the girls remember what words of their mothers?

2. How many hours per week do the art students spend in art classes?

3. Those who stayed in Queens know that those who left do not care about what?

4. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?

5. In Part One, Brown, the narrator describes the various shades of brown of her and other brown girls. What is NOT a way she describes her and her friends’ skin tones?

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