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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What makes Maya proud to be black for the first time?
(a) Mrs. Flowers
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Graduating from school
(d) Her Momma's store

4. What are two things that interest the neighbors?
(a) the military and war
(b) farming and owning a store
(c) corn and tobacco
(d) elevators and white people

5. Why does Maya say she is so advanced in school?
(a) Her grandmother sent her to private school.
(b) She is very smart.
(c) The schools are better in the South.
(d) Uncle Willie and boredom make her read more.

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

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

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

9. What do the neighbors ask the children about?
(a) their schooling
(b) their grandmother Baxter
(c) their mother
(d) their travels

10. What do the black women do for the yearly gathering in Stamps?
(a) sew costumes
(b) dance
(c) bake
(d) babysit

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

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

13. How does Bailey get to Baton Rouge?
(a) hitchhikes
(b) drives Momma's car
(c) hops a freight train
(d) tales a bus

14. How did Uncle Willie become handicapped?
(a) dropped as a baby
(b) hit by a car
(c) beat up by a white gang
(d) born with it

15. What does Mrs. Cullinan call Maya?
(a) Mary
(b) Glory
(c) Marguerite
(d) Lizzie

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Maya and Bailey after the incident with Mr. Freedman?

2. What does Joyce do that confuses Bailey?

3. What does Maya think of Mrs. Flowers?

4. What does the young Maya think about white people?

5. How does Maya imagine herself when she is very young?

(see the answer keys)

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