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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. With whom does Maya have adult conversations?
(a) students in school
(b) college graduates that board with her mother
(c) her stepfather
(d) her grandmother

4. What does Momma make the white dentist do?
(a) pay her the ten dollars that he owes her
(b) leave town
(c) faint
(d) see Maya

5. What happens to Mr. Freedman after court?
(a) He goes to jail for 20 years.
(b) Maya's uncles kill him.
(c) He runs away.
(d) He rapes her again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Maya's rank in her graduating class?

2. What does Mrs. Cullinan call Maya?

3. How far is Maya moved up when she starts school in San Francisco?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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