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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Vivian teach the children about other cultures?
(a) through food
(b) introducing them to people from other countries
(c) taking them to different parts of the city
(d) giving them books to read

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

3. How do Maya and Bailey feel when they get Christmas presents from their parents?
(a) happy
(b) grateful
(c) angry
(d) depressed

4. Why do Maya and her brother go to live with their grandmother in Stamps?
(a) Their parents do not want them.
(b) Their parents divorce.
(c) Their mother is sick.
(d) Their parents are killed.

5. What in the movies reminds Bailey of his mother?
(a) the city of San Fransico
(b) seeing St. Louis
(c) the actress, Kay Williams
(d) watching the trains go west

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maya see between the preachers during the revival that she has never seen before?

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

3. What does Maya admire about Momma?

4. What does Mrs. Flowers tell Maya about language?

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

(see the answer key)

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