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

3. When Louis goes down temporarily how does it feel to the blacks?
(a) like another whipping or lynching
(b) like their dreams were dead
(c) like segregation is never going to end
(d) like slavery just got reenacted

4. Who does Maya speak to finally after spending time with Mrs. Flowers?
(a) her grandmother
(b) Uncle Willie
(c) her father
(d) Bailey

5. Where does Bailey build a hideaway?
(a) at a friend's house
(b) behind the store
(c) in the woods
(d) down by the creek

6. Why do Maya and Momma hide Uncle Willie?
(a) The whites are looking for a black man.
(b) They are playing.
(c) His ex-wife is looking for him.
(d) They do not want Bailey to know where he is.

7. How does life for the blacks in Stamps change following the fight?
(a) It gets better.
(b) It does not change at all.
(c) It gets much worse.
(d) It ends segregation.

8. What are two things that interest the neighbors?
(a) the military and war
(b) elevators and white people
(c) farming and owning a store
(d) corn and tobacco

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

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

11. What does Maya admire about Bailey?
(a) He beats up anyone who gives him a hard time.
(b) He can finish all his chores and homework and still read more.
(c) He knows how to steal from the white people.
(d) He is much taller than she.

12. What does Maya find interesting about poor people's attitude towards God?
(a) They think God will save them.
(b) They are angry at God.
(c) They attribute their situation to God's will.
(d) They praise God in spite of poverty.

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

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

15. Why do the children hope for a bloody victory?
(a) The adults will let them stay up late.
(b) It is nice to hear of a white man getting bloody.
(c) It will prove blacks are better than whites.
(d) The adults will give them candy.