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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a black person risking to speak to a white person, according to Momma?
(a) having to go to jail
(b) being made fun of
(c) his or her life
(d) sounding stupid

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

4. What does the young Maya think about white people?
(a) They are dumb.
(b) They cannot be human.
(c) They are ungodly.
(d) They smell funny.

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

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

7. How does Bailey feel about the neighbors questions?
(a) anxious
(b) bored
(c) resentful
(d) he enjoys the spotlight

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

9. Why do some people who live farther away stay at Momma's after the fight?
(a) to make money on boarding them
(b) to join a celebration
(c) they were too tired to walk home
(d) fear of repercussions from white men

10. Why have many black children never seen a white person in Stamps?
(a) The blacks do not go in the white section of town.
(b) Segregation is absolute.
(c) The white people abuse black children.
(d) There are no white people in Stamps.

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

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

13. What happens to Joyce?
(a) She runs away with a soldier.
(b) She runs away with a railroad porter.
(c) She dies.
(d) She runs away with a doctor.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Maya say she is so advanced in school?

2. Why do the children hope for a bloody victory?

3. Why does Maya keep quiet about Mr. Freedman's rape of her?

4. What does Maya say about her senses following her troubles with Mr. Freedman?

5. What does Maya call the time she spends with Mrs. Flowers?

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