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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

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

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

4. Why is Maya uncomfortable about her new school in San Francisco?
(a) She does not have the right clothes to wear.
(b) She is not the smartest kid in school anymore.
(c) She travels through wealthy, white neighborhoods.
(d) Most of the class is Chinese.

5. How does Maya feel about the threat of bombings during the war?
(a) frightened
(b) indifferent
(c) unbelieving
(d) at home

6. When does Maya's mother make Maya take the baby?
(a) right away
(b) never
(c) in a year
(d) three weeks after he is born

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

8. What does Mr. Taylor say about his dead wife and children?
(a) She talked to him last night.
(b) They were not able to have children.
(c) They should have adopted children.
(d) They did not need children.

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

10. Where does Maya sleep when she is on her own?
(a) in the library
(b) in an abandoned car
(c) at a hotel
(d) under a bridge

11. Where does Momma take Maya when she needs a dentist?
(a) Dr. Sarvey
(b) no where
(c) Dr. Lincoln
(d) to California

12. Where does Maya's father work?
(a) at a school
(b) at a naval hospital
(c) at the library
(d) he's a soldier

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

14. What does Maya's new stepfather do for work?
(a) janitor
(b) owns apartment buildings and pool halls
(c) doctor
(d) basketball player

15. What makes Maya's fear of death worse?
(a) thinking her mother was dead
(b) seeing the lynchings in Stamps
(c) when her dog dies
(d) the minister talking about death

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How is Bailey changing in San Francisco?

4. What does Maya's mother think of Maya's fear of becoming a lesbian?

5. How does Maya react to her fight with Dolores?

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