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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An adult Maya suggests that black people survive ___________________.
(a) by education
(b) by arming themselves
(c) in relationship to their dedicated poets
(d) by taking over the government

2. What makes Maya proud to be black for the first time?
(a) Her Momma's store
(b) Graduating from school
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Mrs. Flowers

3. What does Willie tell Bailey is the reason white people hate blacks so much?
(a) White people feel inferior to blacks.
(b) Whites have no souls.
(c) Whites are afraid of blacks.
(d) White people made black people slaves.

4. What does Mrs. Taylor's funeral do to Maya?
(a) makes her happy
(b) makes the word "death" real
(c) helps her grow up
(d) makes her sad

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the children hope for a bloody victory?

2. How does Bailey get to Baton Rouge?

3. What makes Maya's fear of death worse?

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

5. Maya think lesbians are the same as _________.

(see the answer key)

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