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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Maya feel once she is back in Stamps?
(a) excited
(b) relaxed
(c) anxious
(d) scared
2. What happens to Joyce?
(a) She runs away with a soldier.
(b) She dies.
(c) She runs away with a railroad porter.
(d) She runs away with a doctor.
3. Who comes to Stamps to get the children?
(a) Aunt Hilda
(b) no one
(c) Vivian Johnson
(d) Bailey Johnson Senior
4. What does Maya say about her senses following her troubles with Mr. Freedman?
(a) They are about the same.
(b) Colors are muted and sounds are dull.
(c) They wax and wane.
(d) They are very sensitive.
5. What does Mr. Freedman order Maya to do?
(a) read a book
(b) take off her clothes
(c) walk his dog
(d) go to school
6. What do the blacks in Stamps think of Mrs. Flowers?
(a) She is the nobility.
(b) She is an Uncle Tom.
(c) She is too white.
(d) She is a loose woman.
7. Why does Maya run away from the church in the Introduction?
(a) She hates the minister.
(b) She wets herself.
(c) She is afraid of God.
(d) She falls asleep in church.
8. What does she learn from the prejudice the blacks face in Stamps?
(a) how to love deeply
(b) the ability to be satisfied in spite of the inequities
(c) how to get rich even with segregation
(d) how to hate whites
9. What does Bailey do in his hideaway?
(a) reads
(b) plays games with other boys
(c) sleeps
(d) experiments with petting
10. How does segregation affect the attitude of blacks towards whites?
(a) makes the blacks feel contempt towards the whites
(b) makes the blacks hate the whites
(c) makes the blacks pity the whites
(d) makes the blacks admire the whites
11. Where do Bailey and Maya sit in church?
(a) with the other children
(b) in the back
(c) in the choir loft
(d) the front row
12. How does Bailey feel about the neighbors questions?
(a) resentful
(b) bored
(c) anxious
(d) he enjoys the spotlight
13. What do the neighbors ask the children about?
(a) their travels
(b) their schooling
(c) their grandmother Baxter
(d) their mother
14. How do Maya and Bailey feel when they get Christmas presents from their parents?
(a) grateful
(b) angry
(c) depressed
(d) happy
15. What does Mrs. Cullinan call Maya?
(a) Glory
(b) Mary
(c) Lizzie
(d) Marguerite
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Maya admire about Momma?
2. How did Uncle Willie become handicapped?
3. What does Maya do with the first Valentine she ever receives?
4. Why does Maya keep quiet about Mr. Freedman's rape of her?
5. Who is Reverend Howard Thomas?
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