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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 Bailey do in his hideaway?
(a) experiments with petting
(b) reads
(c) sleeps
(d) plays games with other boys

2. Where do the black people who move into Maya's neighborhood during the war go to work?
(a) on the docks
(b) in the war factories
(c) in the dance halls
(d) in the motels

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

4. What makes Maya's fear of death worse?
(a) the minister talking about death
(b) thinking her mother was dead
(c) seeing the lynchings in Stamps
(d) when her dog dies

5. Why do the children hope for a bloody victory?
(a) It will prove blacks are better than whites.
(b) It is nice to hear of a white man getting bloody.
(c) The adults will give them candy.
(d) The adults will let them stay up late.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Maya feel about the threat of bombings during the war?

2. How do Momma and Willie see Momma's confrontation with the dentist?

3. What does Bailey do when someone insults Maya?

4. How does Maya imagine the confrontation between Momma and the dentist?

5. What happens to Joyce?

(see the answer key)

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