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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Maya prove she is not a lesbian?
(a) She has sex with a boy.
(b) She sees a psychologist.
(c) She reads more books.
(d) She starts dating boys.

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

4. What happens after the baby is born?
(a) She gets pregnant again.
(b) She goes to Stamps.
(c) Maya is afraid to touch him.
(d) She wants another baby.

5. How does Miss Kerwin treat her black and white students?
(a) equally
(b) she favors the whites
(c) she favors the Chinese
(d) she favors the blacks

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

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

8. Why do Momma and Maya go away before Bailey?
(a) They cannot afford three tickets.
(b) Momma is afraid for Maya.
(c) Bailey is the older of the two children.
(d) Bailey has to finish school.

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

10. Why does Maya have trouble concentrating at the first school she attends in San Francisco?
(a) There are a lot of cute boys.
(b) The school is filled with troubled girls.
(c) The school sits next to the subway.
(d) The school is mostly Chinese.

11. What do some white men do that makes Bailey so upset one night?
(a) They threaten Maya.
(b) They beat him.
(c) They make him carry the body of a black man.
(d) They threaten to lynch him.

12. What does Maya think about her supervisors on the job?
(a) They are very competent.
(b) They are discriminating against her.
(c) They are not prejudiced.
(d) They like her.

13. 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.

14. 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 silly.
(d) It is possible.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Maya feel about the threat of bombings during the war?

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

3. Where does Vivian go when she leaves Maya and Momma in St. Louis?

4. How does Maya get to her new school in San Francisco?

5. What does her mother tell Maya about cutting school?

(see the answer keys)

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