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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Bailey build a hideaway?
(a) at a friend's house
(b) behind the store
(c) in the woods
(d) down by the creek

2. As a young child who is Maya's favorite author?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Hemmingway
(c) Baldwin
(d) Stewart

3. Why is Bailey late getting home one Saturday?
(a) He gets drunk on alcohol.
(b) He goes to a movie.
(c) He gets lost in the city.
(d) He is beaten by white boys.

4. What happens to Joyce?
(a) She runs away with a railroad porter.
(b) She runs away with a soldier.
(c) She dies.
(d) She runs away with a doctor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Maya compare her grandmother's ability to calm Maya?

2. Where does Momma take Maya when she needs a dentist?

3. What do the black men do for the big summer gathering?

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

5. What do the people at graduation sing after the valedictorian's speech?

(see the answer key)

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