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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Maya compare her grandmother's ability to calm Maya?
(a) Jesus calming the sea
(b) petting a cat to calm it
(c) drinking hot chocolate
(d) soothing the forehead when sick

2. What does Willie tell Bailey is the reason white people hate blacks so much?
(a) White people feel inferior to blacks.
(b) Whites have no souls.
(c) Whites are afraid of blacks.
(d) White people made black people slaves.

3. Where does Momma take Maya when she needs a dentist?
(a) no where
(b) Dr. Sarvey
(c) to California
(d) Dr. Lincoln

4. How does Maya see living in St. Louis?
(a) as exciting
(b) as sad and lonely
(c) as calm and peaceful
(d) like being in a foreign country

5. Who are the fighters that the blacks are listening to during a match broadcast on the radio?
(a) Carmicheal and Veal
(b) Carnera and Louis
(c) Robinson and Louis
(d) Ali and Fraiser

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Maya feel once she is back in Stamps?

2. Why have many black children never seen a white person in Stamps?

3. What do the preachers talk about in relationship to God and whites?

4. What do the black women do for the yearly gathering in Stamps?

5. What does Mrs. Cullinan call Maya?

(see the answer key)

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