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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Maya and Bailey feel when they get Christmas presents from their parents?
(a) grateful
(b) happy
(c) angry
(d) depressed

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

3. Why does Maya run away from the church in the Introduction?
(a) She hates the minister.
(b) She falls asleep in church.
(c) She is afraid of God.
(d) She wets herself.

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

5. Who does Maya speak to finally after spending time with Mrs. Flowers?
(a) Bailey
(b) her grandmother
(c) Uncle Willie
(d) her father

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do the blacks say it is fine for the whites to have money?

3. What does Maya think of her black skin?

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

5. What does the young Maya think about white people?

(see the answer key)

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