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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Maya say about her senses following her troubles with Mr. Freedman?
(a) They are about the same.
(b) Colors are muted and sounds are dull.
(c) They wax and wane.
(d) They are very sensitive.

3. What does Maya tell Joyce?
(a) not to come to the store
(b) not to talk to her brother
(c) to go to church with them
(d) not to confuse her brother

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

5. What does her stepfather teach her about con men?
(a) how to con them
(b) how to join them
(c) to stay away from them
(d) how to spot them

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to Joyce?

3. What does the author say determines the ethics of the people?

4. What does Bailey do in his hideaway?

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

(see the answer key)

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