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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. The girls who are happy being single with no children shock their parents, as being a parent is what?
(a) Practically patriotic.
(b) A natural part of life.
(c) Expected.
(d) One of the first steps to being an adult.

2. Why do girls decide it is in their best interest to initially ignore the boy who cursed at Trish?
(a) He is a low-life not worth their time.
(b) They find the boy's actions funny.
(c) He and his friends are racists and their parents would be upset if they got in a fight at school.
(d) They do not want to be punished by the dean.

3. Brown Girls is a collection of poems that tell the story of girls from what major city?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York City.
(d) Philadelphia.

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

5. 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 hate her.
(d) They are in love with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the girls meet to remember Trish?

2. How does Part One, Bras begin?

3. In Your Own Kind, the brown girls’ parents say they are not what?

4. What is the example given by the narrator for how the girls know how to keep family secrets?

5. What is NOT an example of how the brown girls traveling to Motherlands look like Americans?

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