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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 Maya think of her black skin?
(a) that it is ugly
(b) that it does not mean anything
(c) that it is strange
(d) that it is beautiful

2. What is the biggest gathering of the year in Stamps for black people?
(a) Summer fish fry
(b) Labor day
(c) Memorial day
(d) Fourth of July

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

4. How does life for the blacks in Stamps change following the fight?
(a) It gets much worse.
(b) It does not change at all.
(c) It gets better.
(d) It ends segregation.

5. Why do Maya and Momma hide Uncle Willie?
(a) They do not want Bailey to know where he is.
(b) The whites are looking for a black man.
(c) They are playing.
(d) His ex-wife is looking for him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What job does Vivian do for work?

3. Why have many black children never seen a white person in Stamps?

4. What does Mr. Freedman order Maya to do?

5. How does Bailey get to Baton Rouge?

(see the answer key)

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