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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maya find out about her parents when she receives Christmas presents from them?
(a) that they are alive
(b) that they are rich
(c) that they dislike their children
(d) that they live in Florida

2. What do the blacks in Stamps think of Mrs. Flowers?
(a) She is the nobility.
(b) She is an Uncle Tom.
(c) She is a loose woman.
(d) She is too white.

3. Why do Maya and Bailey dislike the Reverend Thomas?
(a) He never remembers their names.
(b) He preaches too long.
(c) He smells funny.
(d) He pinches them on the cheek.

4. How did Uncle Willie become handicapped?
(a) hit by a car
(b) dropped as a baby
(c) beat up by a white gang
(d) born with it

5. Where do Bailey and Maya sit in church?
(a) with the other children
(b) the front row
(c) in the back
(d) in the choir loft

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Maya want to go back to Stamps?

2. Who is Reverend Howard Thomas?

3. Where do the children go when they leave Stamps?

4. What makes Maya proud to be black for the first time?

5. Why does Maya keep quiet about Mr. Freedman's rape of her?

(see the answer key)

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