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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. When the narrator and her friends play dress-up in a store with beautiful clothes, what does a store clerk think is happening?
(a) They are trying to steal.
(b) They are trying on gowns for prom.
(c) They are doing drugs.
(d) They are adding graffiti to the merchandise.

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

3. What do some of the brothers do who struggle to find work?
(a) They work for relatives.
(b) They return to their old ways.
(c) They become priests, monks, and imams.
(d) They go back to school.

4. When the girls arrive at their destination after they flee from Manhattan, what do they realize?
(a) They do not want to turn around and go back to Manhattan.
(b) They do not have the strength to return all the way back to their old neighborhood.
(c) They made so many mistakes.
(d) They want to swim to another shore.

5. Why do the family and friends who come to stay with the girls and their families leave for other cities?
(a) For work.
(b) They tire of living in cramped conditions in Queens.
(c) They go to stay with other family members.
(d) To see more of America.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do some girls finally decide to have an abortion?

2. Brown and brown means nothing must be explained, as they understand what?

3. In Our Brothers, why do the brothers receive prison sentences?

4. What do the brown girls and boys NOT notice as they cross through Prospect Park?

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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