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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Momma and Maya go away before Bailey?
(a) Bailey has to finish school.
(b) They cannot afford three tickets.
(c) Bailey is the older of the two children.
(d) Momma is afraid for Maya.

2. What does Bailey do when someone insults Maya?
(a) tells Momma
(b) ignores it
(c) takes revenge
(d) joins in

3. Where does Maya transfer to school?
(a) Jefferson High School
(b) George Washington High School
(c) Edgewater High
(d) San Franciso High

4. What does she learn from the prejudice the blacks face in Stamps?
(a) how to love deeply
(b) the ability to be satisfied in spite of the inequities
(c) how to get rich even with segregation
(d) how to hate whites

5. Where do the children go when they leave Stamps?
(a) to their aunt's home
(b) to their mother's home
(c) they never leave Stamps
(d) to a foster home

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the cotton pickers in the first chapter paid?

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

3. Who does Maya speak to finally after spending time with Mrs. Flowers?

4. What does Bailey do in his hideaway?

5. What does Willie tell Bailey is the reason white people hate blacks so much?

(see the answer key)

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