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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Vivian teach the children about other cultures?
(a) taking them to different parts of the city
(b) giving them books to read
(c) through food
(d) introducing them to people from other countries

2. How does Maya react to her fight with Dolores?
(a) She gets scared.
(b) She slaps her.
(c) She apologizes.
(d) She tells Vivian.

3. What happens after the baby is born?
(a) She wants another baby.
(b) She goes to Stamps.
(c) She gets pregnant again.
(d) Maya is afraid to touch him.

4. What does Momma tell the white dentist when he refuses to see Maya?
(a) It is against the law.
(b) God will strike him dead.
(c) His wife will be ashamed of him.
(d) She helped him when he was broke.

5. Maya think lesbians are the same as _________.
(a) tomboys
(b) tough girls
(c) single older women
(d) hermaphrodites

Short Answer Questions

1. How is racism practiced in San Francisco?

2. What does Vivian think when Maya returns home?

3. What does Dolores call Vivian?

4. What does her mother tell Maya about cutting school?

5. What does the pregnancy prove to Maya, in her mind?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Maya's neighborhood in San Francisco during the war?

2. Describe the Lafayette Training School and its students.

3. What happens when Momma and Maya arrive in St. Louis?

4. How does Maya feel about her pregnancy and what does she do?

5. Explain how blacks avoid lying, according to Maya.

6. How has Bailey changed in Maya's absence and what is Vivian's reaction to him?

7. What happens between Dolores and Maya when Maya's father leaves her with Dolores?

8. What does Momma do when Maya has cavities that need the attention of a dentist?

9. Describe Maya's perceptions and experience in her first year at George Washington High School.

10. What happens when Maya decides she wants to work on the street car?

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