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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. What is a black person risking to speak to a white person, according to Momma?
(a) having to go to jail
(b) sounding stupid
(c) being made fun of
(d) his or her life
2. Why have many black children never seen a white person in Stamps?
(a) The white people abuse black children.
(b) The blacks do not go in the white section of town.
(c) Segregation is absolute.
(d) There are no white people in Stamps.
3. What does Maya think of her black skin?
(a) that it is beautiful
(b) that it does not mean anything
(c) that it is ugly
(d) that it is strange
4. How are the cotton pickers in the first chapter paid?
(a) with food
(b) by a company store credit
(c) by the weight of cotton they pick
(d) by the hour
5. What does Maya hear all night when Uncle Willie is hiding?
(a) people running and yelling outside
(b) blacks singing
(c) his whimpering
(d) the minister preaching
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Maya's mother by profession?
2. How does segregation affect the attitude of blacks towards whites?
3. What does Bailey do when someone insults Maya?
4. Why do the cotton pickers complain at the end of the day?
5. Why does Maya keep quiet about Mr. Freedman's rape of her?
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