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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are two things that interest the neighbors?
(a) elevators and white people
(b) farming and owning a store
(c) corn and tobacco
(d) the military and war

2. Where, according to the author, can childhood questions be answered?
(a) by their mother
(b) in the town in which the child grew up
(c) by their parents
(d) by reading about childhood

3. What do the preachers talk about in relationship to God and whites?
(a) God hates them.
(b) They are favored by God.
(c) God is indifferent to them.
(d) They will receive punishment.

4. What does Mr. Freedman order Maya to do?
(a) go to school
(b) take off her clothes
(c) read a book
(d) walk his dog

5. What do the blacks in Stamps think of Mrs. Flowers?
(a) She is an Uncle Tom.
(b) She is a loose woman.
(c) She is the nobility.
(d) She is too white.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maya wish when she reads books about heroes?

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

3. Why do the children hope for a bloody victory?

4. What does Maya decide to do after Mr. Freedman is stopped?

5. What does Maya hear all night when Uncle Willie is hiding?

(see the answer key)

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