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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comes to Stamps to get the children?
(a) Bailey Johnson Senior
(b) Aunt Hilda
(c) Vivian Johnson
(d) no one

2. What does Grandma Baxter do?
(a) She is a dancer.
(b) She is a precinct captain.
(c) She is a school teacher.
(d) She is a singer.

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

4. What convinces Maya as she is leaving that Mrs. Cullinan now knows her name?
(a) She leaves it written on the table.
(b) She sends a letter to Mrs. Cullinan.
(c) Mrs. Cullinan screams at her.
(d) Glory tells Mrs. Cullinan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maya admire about Bailey?

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

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

4. How does Maya punish herself when she does not measure flour correctly?

5. What does Uncle Willie do to punish mistakes in math that Maya makes?

(see the answer key)

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