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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the preachers talk about in relationship to God and whites?
(a) They are favored by God.
(b) God is indifferent to them.
(c) God hates them.
(d) They will receive punishment.

2. What does Bailey do in his hideaway?
(a) plays games with other boys
(b) sleeps
(c) reads
(d) experiments with petting

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

4. Why does Maya run away from the church in the Introduction?
(a) She falls asleep in church.
(b) She wets herself.
(c) She hates the minister.
(d) She is afraid of God.

5. Why is Bailey late getting home one Saturday?
(a) He gets drunk on alcohol.
(b) He gets lost in the city.
(c) He is beaten by white boys.
(d) He goes to a movie.

6. How does segregation affect the attitude of blacks towards whites?
(a) makes the blacks pity the whites
(b) makes the blacks hate the whites
(c) makes the blacks admire the whites
(d) makes the blacks feel contempt towards the whites

7. What do Maya and her best friend call the language that they create?
(a) Tut
(b) Lou
(c) Ugh
(d) Ameriring

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

9. What does Maya find out about her parents when she receives Christmas presents from them?
(a) that they are alive
(b) that they are rich
(c) that they live in Florida
(d) that they dislike their children

10. Where do Bailey and Maya sit in church?
(a) in the back
(b) in the choir loft
(c) the front row
(d) with the other children

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

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

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

14. What does Mrs. Flowers tell Maya about language?
(a) It does not matter how you talk.
(b) It is never clear what someone is saying.
(c) It is God's curse on humans.
(d) It is how man communicates.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What day of the week is exciting and different to Maya?

2. Why do Maya and Bailey dislike the Reverend Thomas?

3. What does Maya think of her black skin?

4. What does Joyce do that confuses Bailey?

5. Where does Maya say a person's values and opinions are formed?

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