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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 is a black person risking to speak to a white person, according to Momma?
(a) sounding stupid
(b) having to go to jail
(c) his or her life
(d) being made fun of

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

3. How do Maya and Bailey feel when they get Christmas presents from their parents?
(a) grateful
(b) happy
(c) angry
(d) depressed

4. Why do Maya and Momma hide Uncle Willie?
(a) His ex-wife is looking for him.
(b) The whites are looking for a black man.
(c) They are playing.
(d) They do not want Bailey to know where he is.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Uncle Willie become handicapped?

2. Where, according to the author, can childhood questions be answered?

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

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

5. What does Maya admire about Bailey?

(see the answer key)

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