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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Maya punish herself when she does not measure flour correctly?
(a) by not reading that night
(b) by cleaning the kitchen
(c) by not eating sweets
(d) by not going to the movies
2. Why do Maya and her brother go to live with their grandmother in Stamps?
(a) Their parents divorce.
(b) Their parents do not want them.
(c) Their mother is sick.
(d) Their parents are killed.
3. Why do the cotton pickers complain at the end of the day?
(a) They work too hard.
(b) They are always cut.
(c) They think the scales are weighted.
(d) They need more jobs.
4. What does Mrs. Flowers tell Maya about language?
(a) It is never clear what someone is saying.
(b) It does not matter how you talk.
(c) It is God's curse on humans.
(d) It is how man communicates.
5. What day of the week is exciting and different to Maya?
(a) Tuesday
(b) Thursday
(c) Saturday
(d) Sunday
Short Answer Questions
1. How did Uncle Willie become handicapped?
2. What are two things that interest the neighbors?
3. In Chapter 18, where do the cotton pickers go after eating dinner?
4. How are the cotton pickers in the first chapter paid?
5. When Louis goes down temporarily how does it feel to the blacks?
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