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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does George Taylor visit Momma?
(a) He is lonely.
(b) He likes the children.
(c) He needs money.
(d) He is a friend of Uncle Willie's.

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

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

4. Who holds all the money in the gang Maya joins?
(a) Bootsie
(b) Sabrina
(c) Maya
(d) James

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

6. What does her stepfather teach her about con men?
(a) how to con them
(b) how to join them
(c) to stay away from them
(d) how to spot them

7. Maya think lesbians are the same as _________.
(a) tough girls
(b) single older women
(c) tomboys
(d) hermaphrodites

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

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

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

11. Where do the black people who move into Maya's neighborhood during the war go to work?
(a) in the war factories
(b) in the dance halls
(c) in the motels
(d) on the docks

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

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

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

15. Where does Maya's father take her on a trip?
(a) Florida
(b) Canada
(c) Las Vegas
(d) Mexico

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dolores call Vivian?

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

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

4. How do Momma and Willie see Momma's confrontation with the dentist?

5. How many black doctors and dentists does Stamps have?

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