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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) It's a Hard, Hard World
(b) Amazing Grace
(c) the Negro National Anthem
(d) the national anthem

2. To what does Maya compare her grandmother's ability to calm Maya?
(a) drinking hot chocolate
(b) petting a cat to calm it
(c) soothing the forehead when sick
(d) Jesus calming the sea

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

4. Why does Maya drive the car back to Calexico?
(a) Her father is sick.
(b) Her father takes off for South America.
(c) Her father is drunk.
(d) she does not drive the car because she is too young.

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

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

7. What is Maya's rank in her graduating class?
(a) in the middle
(b) at the bottom
(c) first
(d) second

8. What does Momma tell the white dentist when he refuses to see Maya?
(a) His wife will be ashamed of him.
(b) God will strike him dead.
(c) She helped him when he was broke.
(d) It is against the law.

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

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

11. How does Maya imagine the confrontation between Momma and the dentist?
(a) with Momma hitting him over the head
(b) with Momma convincing him to see Maya
(c) with Momma wrecking his office
(d) with Momma kicking him out of town

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

13. How is Bailey changing in San Francisco?
(a) He is becoming more street smart.
(b) He is more timid.
(c) He is quieter.
(d) He is more studious.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mr. Taylor say about his dead wife and children?

3. Where does Maya's father work?

4. Who teaches Maya the rules of the junkyard?

5. What does Mrs. Taylor's funeral do to Maya?

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