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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of people does the street car company hire?
(a) Chinese
(b) high school graduates
(c) white people
(d) educated people

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

4. What happens to Maya's Japanese neighbors during the war?
(a) they join the army
(b) they disappear
(c) they are robbed
(d) nothing

5. How long does it take Maya to get a job with the street car company?
(a) a year
(b) three weeks
(c) a month
(d) two days

6. What does Bailey do in response to his mother's dislike of his lifestyle?
(a) goes back to school
(b) quits hanging with his friends
(c) moves out
(d) slaps her

7. What book does Maya read that exposes her to lesbianism?
(a) The Children's Hour
(b) Six of One
(c) Dykes on Bikes
(d) The Well of Loneliness

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

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

10. What does Maya's mother tell her when she is worried about raising a child?
(a) She will be fine because it is natural.
(b) Being a parent is very difficult.
(c) She will help her.
(d) She should take a parenting class.

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

12. What does Mrs. Taylor's funeral do to Maya?
(a) makes her sad
(b) makes the word "death" real
(c) helps her grow up
(d) makes her happy

13. 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) He forgot some ingredients.
(d) They are late.

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

15. Who does Vivian marry after Maya has gone to live with her?
(a) Mr. William Hardy
(b) Mr. Clidell
(c) no one
(d) Malcom X

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does her mother say about Maya's pregnancy?

4. What are the graduates of Lafayette Training School expected to become?

5. Why does Maya start cutting school?

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