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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Bailey build a hideaway?
(a) at a friend's house
(b) behind the store
(c) down by the creek
(d) in the woods

2. What happens to Joyce?
(a) She runs away with a doctor.
(b) She dies.
(c) She runs away with a railroad porter.
(d) She runs away with a soldier.

3. What are two things that interest the neighbors?
(a) corn and tobacco
(b) the military and war
(c) elevators and white people
(d) farming and owning a store

4. What does the author say determines the ethics of the people?
(a) teaching of the church
(b) the needs of society
(c) the education of citizens
(d) parents of children

5. What does Bailey do in his hideaway?
(a) reads
(b) sleeps
(c) plays games with other boys
(d) experiments with petting

Short Answer Questions

1. What does she learn from the prejudice the blacks face in Stamps?

2. Who does Vivian marry after Maya has gone to live with her?

3. What does Maya say about her senses following her troubles with Mr. Freedman?

4. What do the neighbors ask the children about?

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

(see the answer key)

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