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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Maya imagine herself when she is very young?
(a) as a woman wearing furs and diamonds
(b) as a super black model
(c) as a white man
(d) as a blonde with blue eyes

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

4. How does Maya see living in St. Louis?
(a) like being in a foreign country
(b) as sad and lonely
(c) as exciting
(d) as calm and peaceful

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

6. How does Maya get out of working for Mrs. Cullinan?
(a) She leaves mud on the table.
(b) She steals her jewlery.
(c) She drops the good china.
(d) She breaks a window.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maya think of Mrs. Flowers?

2. Who comes to Stamps to get the children?

3. What does Grandma Baxter do?

4. What convinces Maya as she is leaving that Mrs. Cullinan now knows her name?

5. How did Uncle Willie become handicapped?

(see the answer keys)

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