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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bailey do for Joyce?
(a) steals food for her
(b) teaches her about boys
(c) teaches her to write
(d) teaches her to read

2. How does Maya feel once she is back in Stamps?
(a) anxious
(b) excited
(c) scared
(d) relaxed

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

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

5. Who, according to blacks, is successful in spite of the oppression of white people?
(a) teachers in black schools
(b) Malcom X
(c) the hero in the ghetto
(d) black doctors

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does her stepfather teach her about con men?

3. What do the neighbors ask the children about?

4. What does Maya's new stepfather do for work?

5. Where does Bailey build a hideaway?

(see the answer key)

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