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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 Maya's new stepfather do for work?
(a) owns apartment buildings and pool halls
(b) doctor
(c) basketball player
(d) janitor

2. With whom does Maya have adult conversations?
(a) her grandmother
(b) college graduates that board with her mother
(c) students in school
(d) her stepfather

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What do the neighbors ask the children about?

4. What does Bailey do in his hideaway?

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

(see the answer key)

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