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

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

3. Where do the girls meet after midnight to get reassurance, they made a good choice to attend high school outside of Queens?
(a) The narrator’s home.
(b) Dunkin’ Donuts.
(c) 7-eleven.
(d) The local park.

4. How does the narrator describe the songs that vocal students memorize?
(a) Moments from the past.
(b) Beautiful and challenging.
(c) The language of our colonizers.
(d) The languages of love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The successful girls are so visible they have become what?

3. What is NOT a place that the narrator mentions as being in her neighborhood?

4. What is NOT one of the Commandments described in Our Mothers’ Commandments?

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

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