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

2. How does Maya see living in St. Louis?
(a) as exciting
(b) as sad and lonely
(c) as calm and peaceful
(d) like being in a foreign country

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

4. As a young child who is Maya's favorite author?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Hemmingway
(c) Stewart
(d) Baldwin

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bailey do when someone insults Maya?

2. How many times has Momma been married?

3. How does Maya imagine herself when she is very young?

4. How did Uncle Willie become handicapped?

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

(see the answer key)

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