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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maya admire about Bailey?
(a) He can finish all his chores and homework and still read more.
(b) He beats up anyone who gives him a hard time.
(c) He is much taller than she.
(d) He knows how to steal from the white people.

2. What does she learn from the prejudice the blacks face in Stamps?
(a) how to hate whites
(b) how to get rich even with segregation
(c) how to love deeply
(d) the ability to be satisfied in spite of the inequities

3. What does Mr. Freedman order Maya to do?
(a) walk his dog
(b) read a book
(c) go to school
(d) take off her clothes

4. As a young child who is Maya's favorite author?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Stewart
(c) Hemmingway
(d) Baldwin

5. What does Mrs. Cullinan call Maya?
(a) Glory
(b) Lizzie
(c) Mary
(d) Marguerite

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bailey do when someone insults Maya?

2. Why is Bailey late getting home one Saturday?

3. What does Grandma Baxter do?

4. What does Joyce do that confuses Bailey?

5. Who comes to Stamps to get the children?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Maya say she learns from her mother's family?

2. Why is Saturday important to Maya?

3. Describe Maya's reaction to her first Valentine.

4. How does Maya see Mrs. Flowers and how does she feel about her?

5. What are the only two rules Momma has about children?

6. How does Maya feel about her grandmother's store?

7. As a child, how does Maya view herself physically?

8. What does Maya learn to understand, and later believe, about cotton pickers?

9. What does Mr. Freedman do to Maya?

10. Why is Bailey late coming home in Chapter 17?

(see the answer keys)

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