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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does her mother tell Maya about cutting school?
(a) She can quit school if she wants.
(b) She is not supposed to cut classes.
(c) If her work is caught up, she can skip.
(d) She can transfer to another school.

2. What does Maya's mother think of Maya's fear of becoming a lesbian?
(a) It is scary.
(b) It might be based in fact.
(c) It is possible.
(d) It is silly.

3. How does Maya imagine the confrontation between Momma and the dentist?
(a) with Momma wrecking his office
(b) with Momma convincing him to see Maya
(c) with Momma kicking him out of town
(d) with Momma hitting him over the head

4. Who, according to blacks, is successful in spite of the oppression of white people?
(a) black doctors
(b) the hero in the ghetto
(c) Malcom X
(d) teachers in black schools

5. What does her mother say about Maya's pregnancy?
(a) asks if she wants to marry the boy
(b) that Maya is a whore
(c) that those things happen
(d) that she has to go live in Stamps

6. How does Bailey feel about Maya's return?
(a) happy
(b) excited
(c) not interested in it
(d) depressed

7. Why does Maya's mother wake her and Bailey at night?
(a) because she's drunk
(b) for biscuits and chocolate milk
(c) to drill them about their school work
(d) to move them out of her room

8. What does Momma make the white dentist do?
(a) faint
(b) pay her the ten dollars that he owes her
(c) see Maya
(d) leave town

9. What do the people at graduation sing after the valedictorian's speech?
(a) the Negro National Anthem
(b) Amazing Grace
(c) the national anthem
(d) It's a Hard, Hard World

10. What does Vivian think when Maya returns home?
(a) Dolores is a bitch.
(b) Her father did not feed her well.
(c) Maya is acting up.
(d) Maya had a good time.

11. Where does Vivian go when she leaves Maya and Momma in St. Louis?
(a) San Francisco
(b) New York
(c) Stamps
(d) Florida

12. How many black doctors and dentists does Stamps have?
(a) five
(b) none
(c) one
(d) two

13. What does Dolores complain about when Maya and her father come in from the trip?
(a) He forgot some ingredients.
(b) They are late.
(c) He has cheated on her.
(d) Maya is wearing his jacket.

14. Why are Maya and Bailey being sent away?
(a) Their father wants them.
(b) Stamps is too segregated.
(c) Momma is too old.
(d) Momma does not want them anymore.

15. What job does Vivian do for work?
(a) runs card games
(b) maid
(c) social worker
(d) teacher

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "tripartite crossfire" that assaults young black girls?

2. How does Maya see the city of San Francisco?

3. What does Maya think about her supervisors on the job?

4. What do some white men do that makes Bailey so upset one night?

5. What does the pregnancy prove to Maya, in her mind?

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