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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maya tell her father about Dolores?
(a) She is pretty.
(b) She is very nice.
(c) She is awful.
(d) She is pretentious.

2. How does Vivian teach the children about other cultures?
(a) giving them books to read
(b) taking them to different parts of the city
(c) introducing them to people from other countries
(d) through food

3. What does Dolores tell Maya's father about marriage?
(a) She wants to marry him but not his children.
(b) She does not want to marry.
(c) She will marry if Maya will come to the wedding.
(d) She does not believe in marriage.

4. How does Dolores feel about Maya?
(a) She wants to adopt her.
(b) She likes her.
(c) She is jealous of her.
(d) She is afraid of her.

5. What do the boys in the gang do for money?
(a) steal
(b) sweep out pool halls and mow lawns
(c) con people
(d) shine shoes

6. Where does Maya's father take her after her fight with Dolores?
(a) to church
(b) to the bus station
(c) to the hospital
(d) to a friend's house

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

8. What do Bailey and Maya have in common since her return from her father's?
(a) school
(b) drinking
(c) dancing
(d) street slang

9. How does Maya feel about communication with the dead?
(a) unbelieving
(b) excited
(c) bored
(d) terrified

10. Why can Maya not become a lesbian, according to her mother?
(a) It does not run in the family.
(b) It is against the church.
(c) Her mother has one son and one daughter.
(d) She has seen Maya watching boys.

11. What is the "tripartite crossfire" that assaults young black girls?
(a) prejudice, white hate and a lack of power
(b) fear, babies and black men
(c) ignorance, greed and indifference
(d) lack of power, lack of money and self-hatred

12. What does Momma give Maya for graduation?
(a) a business suit
(b) a Mickey Mouse watch
(c) a used car
(d) a new dress

13. Why does Maya start cutting school?
(a) She does not have much in common with the girls at school.
(b) She thinks she has enough education.
(c) She does not like the principal.
(d) She hates reading.

14. An adult Maya suggests that black people survive ___________________.
(a) in relationship to their dedicated poets
(b) by arming themselves
(c) by taking over the government
(d) by education

15. How does Maya get to her new school in San Francisco?
(a) walks
(b) street car
(c) bus
(d) subway

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Maya afraid to go home to her mother's?

2. Who, according to blacks, is successful in spite of the oppression of white people?

3. How does Miss Kerwin treat her black and white students?

4. What does the author say determines the ethics of the people?

5. Who does Vivian marry after Maya has gone to live with her?

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