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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of men are Maya's uncles?
(a) mean and violent
(b) educated and rich
(c) soft spoken and courteous
(d) slow learners

3. What does Maya tell Joyce?
(a) to go to church with them
(b) not to confuse her brother
(c) not to talk to her brother
(d) not to come to the store

4. Why does Maya's mother wake her and Bailey at night?
(a) to move them out of her room
(b) because she's drunk
(c) for biscuits and chocolate milk
(d) to drill them about their school work

5. What do some white men do that makes Bailey so upset one night?
(a) They threaten to lynch him.
(b) They make him carry the body of a black man.
(c) They beat him.
(d) They threaten Maya.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the blacks ask in regard to the whites and judgment?

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

3. What does Mrs. Taylor's funeral do to Maya?

4. How does Bailey feel about the neighbors questions?

5. Why does George Taylor visit Momma?

(see the answer key)

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