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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) angry
(b) happy
(c) grateful
(d) depressed

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

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

4. How does Bailey get to Baton Rouge?
(a) drives Momma's car
(b) hops a freight train
(c) hitchhikes
(d) tales a bus

5. Why do the blacks say it is fine for the whites to have money?
(a) The rich are lonely.
(b) God loves the black people.
(c) The rich will burn in hell.
(d) Blacks have more love.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do the cotton pickers complain at the end of the day?

3. Where does Maya say a person's values and opinions are formed?

4. What does Maya think of Mrs. Flowers?

5. Why do Maya and her brother go to live with their grandmother in Stamps?

(see the answer key)

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