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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 | Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maya hear all night when Uncle Willie is hiding?
(a) blacks singing
(b) the minister preaching
(c) his whimpering
(d) people running and yelling outside

2. Why does Maya run away from the church in the Introduction?
(a) She is afraid of God.
(b) She wets herself.
(c) She falls asleep in church.
(d) She hates the minister.

3. Why have many black children never seen a white person in Stamps?
(a) The white people abuse black children.
(b) There are no white people in Stamps.
(c) The blacks do not go in the white section of town.
(d) Segregation is absolute.

4. What does Maya admire about Bailey?
(a) He knows how to steal from the white people.
(b) He can finish all his chores and homework and still read more.
(c) He is much taller than she.
(d) He beats up anyone who gives him a hard time.

5. Where do the children go when they leave Stamps?
(a) to their mother's home
(b) to a foster home
(c) to their aunt's home
(d) they never leave Stamps

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where do Bailey and Maya sit in church?

3. As a young child who is Maya's favorite author?

4. What does Maya find out about her parents when she receives Christmas presents from them?

5. What is a black person risking to speak to a white person, according to Momma?

(see the answer key)

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