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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Maya drive the car back to Calexico?
(a) she does not drive the car because she is too young.
(b) Her father takes off for South America.
(c) Her father is sick.
(d) Her father is drunk.

2. What do Bailey and Maya have in common since her return from her father's?
(a) school
(b) street slang
(c) drinking
(d) dancing

3. Who wins the fight between the black boxer and the white?
(a) the white
(b) the black
(c) they didn't finish the fight
(d) it was a draw

4. Who, according to blacks, is successful in spite of the oppression of white people?
(a) Malcom X
(b) the hero in the ghetto
(c) black doctors
(d) teachers in black schools

5. What does the young Maya think about white people?
(a) They cannot be human.
(b) They are ungodly.
(c) They smell funny.
(d) They are dumb.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Maya spend summer vacation?

2. How does Bailey feel about Maya's return?

3. Why do the cotton pickers complain at the end of the day?

4. How does Maya's mother's home seem to her after returning from her father's?

5. What does Bailey do when someone insults Maya?

(see the answer key)

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