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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. What business does the author hint at almost came to the brown girls’ neighborhood?
(a) Apple.
(b) Starbucks.
(c) Walmart.
(d) Amazon.

2. Why are many of Trish’s friends initially oblivious to what happened to Trish?
(a) They are at work.
(b) They do not watch the news.
(c) They are on the east coast, while she is on the west coast.
(d) They do not care about Trish.

3. Brown and brown means nothing must be explained, as they understand what?
(a) That they have mutual friends and connections.
(b) How to live together.
(c) How the other person thinks.
(d) Racism, prejudice, and white privilege.

4. In Our Not-Reflections, the girls remember what words of their mothers?
(a) When you grow up, you’ll see.
(b) Your face will freeze that way.
(c) I told you so.
(d) Remember who you are.

5. Trish puts her hands on the girls’ shoulders as the girls close their eyes and does what?
(a) Tells them to take care and pushes them back over the cliff.
(b) Tells them to wake up as she pushes them back over the cliff.
(c) Says goodbye.
(d) Hugs them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has taken the place of The Flea?

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

3. In Part Eight, Brown Girls Ascend Beyond the Final Frontier & All I Got Was this Lousy T-Shirt, what happens to the brown girls?

4. In Amnesia, the girls struggle to get out of bed in the morning, as they realize what?

5. When the white boys try to be gently intimate, how do the girls NOT react?

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