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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does she learn from the prejudice the blacks face in Stamps?
(a) the ability to be satisfied in spite of the inequities
(b) how to love deeply
(c) how to get rich even with segregation
(d) how to hate whites

2. What does Maya see between the preachers during the revival that she has never seen before?
(a) anger
(b) competition
(c) indifference
(d) cooperation

3. What does Maya do with her panties after Mr. Freedman attacks her?
(a) show them to her mother
(b) burns them
(c) throws them away
(d) hides them

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

5. What day of the week is exciting and different to Maya?
(a) Thursday
(b) Sunday
(c) Tuesday
(d) Saturday

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

7. What does Maya find interesting about poor people's attitude towards God?
(a) They attribute their situation to God's will.
(b) They think God will save them.
(c) They praise God in spite of poverty.
(d) They are angry at God.

8. What does Grandma Baxter do?
(a) She is a dancer.
(b) She is a precinct captain.
(c) She is a school teacher.
(d) She is a singer.

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

10. What does Joyce do that confuses Bailey?
(a) tells him he needs to grow up
(b) tells him she is a lesbian
(c) tells him to open his pants
(d) tells him about sex

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

12. Who gives the children peanut patties?
(a) Uncle Willie
(b) Momma
(c) The owner of the candy store
(d) Mrs. Flowers

13. Why does Maya keep quiet about Mr. Freedman's rape of her?
(a) She is afraid he will kill Bailey.
(b) She is afraid of the police.
(c) She is afraid he will kill the dog.
(d) She is afraid of her mother.

14. What does Bailey do for Joyce?
(a) teaches her to read
(b) steals food for her
(c) teaches her to write
(d) teaches her about boys

15. Who becomes Maya's first girlfriend?
(a) Susie Turner
(b) Millie Hanks
(c) Ruth Potter
(d) Louise Kendricks

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Maya proud to be black for the first time?

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

3. What does Mrs. Cullinan call Maya?

4. Why do Maya and her brother go to live with their grandmother in Stamps?

5. In Chapter 18, where do the cotton pickers go after eating dinner?

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