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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 | Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Bailey and Maya sit in church?
(a) in the back
(b) the front row
(c) in the choir loft
(d) with the other children

2. What does Maya wish when she reads books about heroes?
(a) that she was a boy
(b) that a hero would kill Mr. Freedman
(c) that she would be rescued
(d) that she was a princess

3. What does Maya do with her panties after Mr. Freedman attacks her?
(a) burns them
(b) show them to her mother
(c) throws them away
(d) hides them

4. Why does Maya keep quiet about Mr. Freedman's rape of her?
(a) She is afraid he will kill the dog.
(b) She is afraid of the police.
(c) She is afraid he will kill Bailey.
(d) She is afraid of her mother.

5. How did Uncle Willie become handicapped?
(a) beat up by a white gang
(b) dropped as a baby
(c) born with it
(d) hit by a car

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Maya see living in St. Louis?

2. Why do Maya and Momma hide Uncle Willie?

3. What does the young Maya think about white people?

4. Where do the children go when they leave Stamps?

5. Why do the cotton pickers complain at the end of the day?

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