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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Maya say she is so advanced in school?
(a) The schools are better in the South.
(b) She is very smart.
(c) Her grandmother sent her to private school.
(d) Uncle Willie and boredom make her read more.

2. How does Maya punish herself when she does not measure flour correctly?
(a) by cleaning the kitchen
(b) by not going to the movies
(c) by not reading that night
(d) by not eating sweets

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

4. What does Maya do with the first Valentine she ever receives?
(a) throws it away
(b) burns it
(c) tears it up
(d) presses it in a book

5. What do the blacks ask in regard to the whites and judgment?
(a) Will rich blacks be included?
(b) Will the poor get to see the judgment?
(c) How bad is it going to be?
(d) When is it going to happen?

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Maya proud to be black for the first time?

2. How does Maya see living in St. Louis?

3. What do the blacks in Stamps think of Mrs. Flowers?

4. Why do Maya and Bailey dislike the Reverend Thomas?

5. What does Momma make the white dentist do?

(see the answer key)

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