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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. Who is Reverend Howard Thomas?
(a) a presiding elder in the church
(b) Momma's brother
(c) Uncle Willie's friend
(d) the preacher on television

2. Where, according to the author, can childhood questions be answered?
(a) by reading about childhood
(b) by their parents
(c) by their mother
(d) in the town in which the child grew up

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

4. How does Maya imagine herself when she is very young?
(a) as a blonde with blue eyes
(b) as a white man
(c) as a super black model
(d) as a woman wearing furs and diamonds

5. What does the young Maya think about white people?
(a) They smell funny.
(b) They are dumb.
(c) They cannot be human.
(d) They are ungodly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bailey do when someone insults Maya?

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

3. Why do the cotton pickers complain at the end of the day?

4. How does Maya punish herself when she does not measure flour correctly?

5. Why do Maya and her brother go to live with their grandmother in Stamps?

(see the answer key)

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