View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maya hear all night when Uncle Willie is hiding?
(a) people running and yelling outside
(b) his whimpering
(c) blacks singing
(d) the minister preaching

2. What does Mr. Freedman order Maya to do?
(a) go to school
(b) take off her clothes
(c) read a book
(d) walk his dog

3. In Chapter 18, where do the cotton pickers go after eating dinner?
(a) to friends' or family homes for a visit
(b) to bed
(c) to a revival
(d) to see fireworks

4. What do the black men do for the big summer gathering?
(a) dance
(b) sing
(c) hunt deer
(d) fish for bass

5. What happens to Maya and Bailey after the incident with Mr. Freedman?
(a) They are put in a foster home.
(b) They are sent back to Stamps.
(c) They are sent to their father's home.
(d) They are put in a boarding school.

6. What does Maya see between the preachers during the revival that she has never seen before?
(a) indifference
(b) cooperation
(c) competition
(d) anger

7. What does Maya wish when she reads books about heroes?
(a) that a hero would kill Mr. Freedman
(b) that she would be rescued
(c) that she was a boy
(d) that she was a princess

8. What does Maya say about her senses following her troubles with Mr. Freedman?
(a) They are about the same.
(b) They are very sensitive.
(c) They wax and wane.
(d) Colors are muted and sounds are dull.

9. What does Maya do with her panties after Mr. Freedman attacks her?
(a) show them to her mother
(b) burns them
(c) hides them
(d) throws them away

10. How old is Maya when she goes to work for Mrs. Cullinan?
(a) fourteen
(b) twelve
(c) ten
(d) eight

11. 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

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

13. Why do the cotton pickers complain at the end of the day?
(a) They work too hard.
(b) They are always cut.
(c) They need more jobs.
(d) They think the scales are weighted.

14. Who comes to Stamps to get the children?
(a) Vivian Johnson
(b) no one
(c) Aunt Hilda
(d) Bailey Johnson Senior

15. Why does Maya say she is so advanced in school?
(a) She is very smart.
(b) The schools are better in the South.
(c) Her grandmother sent her to private school.
(d) Uncle Willie and boredom make her read more.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Maya's mother by profession?

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

3. What does she learn from the prejudice the blacks face in Stamps?

4. Why does Maya run away from the church in the Introduction?

5. Why do Maya and Momma hide Uncle Willie?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 534 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample