I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 135 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Maya and her brother go to live with their grandmother in Stamps?
(a) Their mother is sick.
(b) Their parents do not want them.
(c) Their parents are killed.
(d) Their parents divorce.

2. What does she learn from the prejudice the blacks face in Stamps?
(a) how to love deeply
(b) how to get rich even with segregation
(c) how to hate whites
(d) the ability to be satisfied in spite of the inequities

3. What does Grandma Baxter do?
(a) She is a precinct captain.
(b) She is a dancer.
(c) She is a school teacher.
(d) She is a singer.

4. How does Bailey get to Baton Rouge?
(a) hitchhikes
(b) hops a freight train
(c) tales a bus
(d) drives Momma's car

5. Why do Maya and Momma hide Uncle Willie?
(a) They do not want Bailey to know where he is.
(b) His ex-wife is looking for him.
(c) They are playing.
(d) The whites are looking for a black man.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the cotton pickers in the first chapter paid?

2. What does Maya think of her black skin?

3. Why does Maya keep quiet about Mr. Freedman's rape of her?

4. How does Maya punish herself when she does not measure flour correctly?

5. How does life for the blacks in Stamps change following the fight?

(see the answer key)

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