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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 does the narrator say the other boys are?
(a) Practically celebrities.
(b) Wanna-bees.
(c) Absolute perfection.
(d) All-American boys.

2. What is NOT an example of how the brown girls traveling to Motherlands look like Americans?
(a) They cannot stomach the water.
(b) They wear clothing that looks like the American flag.
(c) They dress immodestly.
(d) They are bigger, due to having an American diet.

3. Why do the girls feel the urge to leave the large family parties?
(a) To play in the backyard.
(b) They are overheated.
(c) For a breath of fresh air.
(d) They are bored.

4. While away for a friends’ wedding, who do the girls meet?
(a) An old neighbor at a jazz bar.
(b) An old girlfriend at a jazz bar.
(c) A man playing the drums at a jazz bar.
(d) An old classmate at a jazz bar.

5. As the brown girls see first-hand the devastation caused by the colonizers, what do they realize?
(a) They can never return to America.
(b) Whether they like it or not, they lay claim to both.
(c) They are the colonizers.
(d) They are to blame.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As adults the girls understand what about their mothers’ lives?

3. Why do the girls feel awkward when they hug each other?

4. Of what do statues on campus remind the brown girls?

5. What does the narrator call the girls who find solace in the arts and switch their majors to art?

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