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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Maya want to go back to Stamps?
(a) She misses her friends.
(b) she misses her grandmother.
(c) She is frightened.
(d) She hates the weather.

3. What happens to Mr. Freedman after court?
(a) He goes to jail for 20 years.
(b) He runs away.
(c) He rapes her again.
(d) Maya's uncles kill him.

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

5. What convinces Maya as she is leaving that Mrs. Cullinan now knows her name?
(a) Glory tells Mrs. Cullinan.
(b) Mrs. Cullinan screams at her.
(c) She sends a letter to Mrs. Cullinan.
(d) She leaves it written on the table.

6. How many times has Momma been married?
(a) none
(b) once
(c) three
(d) two

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

8. What does Maya decide to do after Mr. Freedman is stopped?
(a) never speak to anyone again
(b) run away
(c) go to college
(d) become a prostitute

9. What does Bailey do when someone insults Maya?
(a) tells Momma
(b) ignores it
(c) takes revenge
(d) joins in

10. What does Maya do with the first Valentine she ever receives?
(a) tears it up
(b) burns it
(c) throws it away
(d) presses it in a book

11. How does Maya feel once she is back in Stamps?
(a) scared
(b) relaxed
(c) anxious
(d) excited

12. What does Uncle Willie do to punish mistakes in math that Maya makes?
(a) sprays her with cold water
(b) touches her fingers to the stove
(c) does not give her dinner
(d) slaps her on the head

13. What is Maya's mother by profession?
(a) a teacher
(b) a nurse
(c) a minister
(d) a librarian

14. What in the movies reminds Bailey of his mother?
(a) watching the trains go west
(b) seeing St. Louis
(c) the actress, Kay Williams
(d) the city of San Fransico

15. Why does Maya give Bailey a dime?
(a) to get her candy
(b) to go to the movies
(c) to buy a comic book
(d) to get her lipstick

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grandma Baxter do?

2. What does Maya find out about her parents when she receives Christmas presents from them?

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

4. What do the black men do for the big summer gathering?

5. Who becomes Maya's first girlfriend?

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