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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 decide to do after Mr. Freedman is stopped?
(a) become a prostitute
(b) run away
(c) go to college
(d) never speak to anyone again

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

3. Why do the cotton pickers complain at the end of the day?
(a) They think the scales are weighted.
(b) They are always cut.
(c) They work too hard.
(d) They need more jobs.

4. How are the cotton pickers in the first chapter paid?
(a) with food
(b) by the weight of cotton they pick
(c) by the hour
(d) by a company store credit

5. Where do Bailey and Maya sit in church?
(a) the front row
(b) in the choir loft
(c) with the other children
(d) in the back

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maya do with her panties after Mr. Freedman attacks her?

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

3. What kind of men are Maya's uncles?

4. Why does Maya keep quiet about Mr. Freedman's rape of her?

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

(see the answer key)

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