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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. What is Maya's mother by profession?
(a) a librarian
(b) a nurse
(c) a minister
(d) a teacher

3. Who gives the children peanut patties?
(a) Mrs. Flowers
(b) Uncle Willie
(c) The owner of the candy store
(d) Momma

4. What makes Maya proud to be black for the first time?
(a) Her Momma's store
(b) Graduating from school
(c) Mrs. Flowers
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

5. What does Maya hear all night when Uncle Willie is hiding?
(a) his whimpering
(b) the minister preaching
(c) blacks singing
(d) people running and yelling outside

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Maya feel once she is back in Stamps?

2. What are girls in Stamps required to learn?

3. Why is Bailey late getting home one Saturday?

4. What does Maya think of Mrs. Flowers?

5. What is a black person risking to speak to a white person, according to Momma?

(see the answer key)

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