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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 | Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maya think of her black skin?
(a) that it is beautiful
(b) that it is strange
(c) that it is ugly
(d) that it does not mean anything

2. What does Maya wish when she reads books about heroes?
(a) that she would be rescued
(b) that she was a boy
(c) that a hero would kill Mr. Freedman
(d) that she was a princess

3. How does Maya punish herself when she does not measure flour correctly?
(a) by not reading that night
(b) by not eating sweets
(c) by not going to the movies
(d) by cleaning the kitchen

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 do not want Bailey to know where he is.
(d) They are playing.

5. Why do Maya and her brother go to live with their grandmother in Stamps?
(a) Their parents are killed.
(b) Their mother is sick.
(c) Their parents divorce.
(d) Their parents do not want them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Maya say she is so advanced in school?

2. How do Maya and Bailey feel when they get Christmas presents from their parents?

3. How does segregation affect the attitude of blacks towards whites?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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