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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 | Chapter 9.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Maya hear all night when Uncle Willie is hiding?
(a) the minister preaching
(b) blacks singing
(c) people running and yelling outside
(d) his whimpering
2. Why do Maya and Momma hide Uncle Willie?
(a) His ex-wife is looking for him.
(b) They do not want Bailey to know where he is.
(c) The whites are looking for a black man.
(d) They are playing.
3. Who comes to Stamps to get the children?
(a) Aunt Hilda
(b) Bailey Johnson Senior
(c) Vivian Johnson
(d) no one
4. What does Bailey do when someone insults Maya?
(a) tells Momma
(b) takes revenge
(c) joins in
(d) ignores it
5. Why do Maya and her brother go to live with their grandmother in Stamps?
(a) Their mother is sick.
(b) Their parents divorce.
(c) Their parents are killed.
(d) Their parents do not want them.
Short Answer Questions
1. How are the cotton pickers in the first chapter paid?
2. Why does Maya want to go back to Stamps?
3. What does Maya think of her black skin?
4. What does Maya admire about Bailey?
5. What does Uncle Willie do to punish mistakes in math that Maya makes?
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