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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 many hours per week do the art students spend in art classes?
(a) 20.
(b) 40.
(c) 50.
(d) 10.

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?
(a) They agree with their mothers but do not want to admit it.
(b) They hate their mothers.
(c) They are thinking about the homework they need to finish.
(d) They disagree with their mothers.

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

4. In Heritage / Inheritance, what does the narrator say the girls are surprised to see?
(a) So many pagan god statues.
(b) Altars to Mary and Jesus next to figures of local gods.
(c) People with the same color of skin as them.
(d) So much Western influence.

5. The girls tell happy stories of their youth with Trish, but one girl thinks back on the time she caught Trish doing what at a party?
(a) Drinking too much.
(b) Snorting what is assumed to be cocaine.
(c) Dancing half-dressed on a table.
(d) Cleaning up after the other drunk kids.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the brown girls sneak into The Flea as young girls?

2. Brown Girls is a collection of poems that tell the story of girls from what major city?

3. What is NOT an example given by the author as something intangible brought back to the States?

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

5. In Haunting, the girls follow Trish but end up where?

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