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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. In [+], the girls have been tracking their cycles and are fertile; some are in a hurry to get pregnant, while others are deciding what?
(a) Whether to get an abortion.
(b) How many children they plan on trying to have.
(c) To avoid getting pregnant.
(d) Whether to take Plan B.

2. What is NOT one of the Commandments described in Our Mothers’ Commandments?
(a) You shall not be a troublesome girl.
(b) You shall not be a dumb girl.
(c) You shall not be an ugly girl.
(d) You shall not be a loud girl with many opinions.

3. How do the mothers react to the boys being given prison sentences?
(a) They beat their sons.
(b) They weep uncontrollably.
(c) They are angry and silent.
(d) They scream curses at their sons.

4. In Night, how do the brown girls pay for expensive clothes?
(a) They do not pay for their clothes, as they receive them as gifts, or they steal them.
(b) Selling their bodies.
(c) Stealing from their parents’ pocketbooks and wallets.
(d) Babysitting and tutoring money.

5. What does a white woman say when she sees the brown boy and girl?
(a) Who do they think they are?
(b) I hope they won't rob me.
(c) Why won't they stay on their own side of the park?
(d) Thank God they stick to their own kind.

Short Answer Questions

1. The book ends with Trish taking the girls’ hands. What do the girls say?

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

3. What do the brown girls realize about their elite classmates?

4. What has taken the place of The Flea?

5. When the girls meet the white boys’ parents, they suddenly become what?

(see the answer key)

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