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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 is NOT a name the brown girls call their teachers while in the lunchroom?
(a) Dumbass.
(b) Dumb and blind.
(c) Old-lady bitch.
(d) Idiot.

2. Regarding the commandment for the girls to not be wayward, what is also not allowed to be discussed?
(a) Birth control options.
(b) What it is like being pregnant.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Dating.

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

4. In Welcome to Mars, how do the girls feel around the elite?
(a) Right at home.
(b) Uninterested.
(c) Out of place.
(d) Superior.

5. In Interlude, the girls are searching for something that cannot be named. Where do the girls NOT search?
(a) Along spouse’s spines.
(b) In pockets.
(c) In the attic.
(d) In their babies' cribs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the girls’ feelings change as they board the plane to the Motherland?

2. What led to improvements on Rockaway Beach?

3. 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?

4. In Part Seven, Shadows, the women say they love their husbands, as they are what?

5. In Part Four, Those Who Leave & Those Who Stay, what do those who leave notice that those who stay never mention?

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