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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. How does segregation affect the attitude of blacks towards whites?
(a) makes the blacks hate the whites
(b) makes the blacks pity the whites
(c) makes the blacks feel contempt towards the whites
(d) makes the blacks admire the whites

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

3. Why does Maya want to go back to Stamps?
(a) she misses her grandmother.
(b) She misses her friends.
(c) She is frightened.
(d) She hates the weather.

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

5. What does Uncle Willie do to punish mistakes in math that Maya makes?
(a) touches her fingers to the stove
(b) slaps her on the head
(c) does not give her dinner
(d) sprays her with cold water

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Uncle Willie become handicapped?

2. Who comes to Stamps to get the children?

3. What does the young Maya think about white people?

4. How are the cotton pickers in the first chapter paid?

5. What does Maya think of her black skin?

(see the answer key)

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