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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 are girls in Stamps required to learn?
(a) embroidery, crochet and tatting
(b) dressmaking and baking
(c) cooking and cleaning
(d) childcare, sewing and driving

2. What are two things that interest the neighbors?
(a) the military and war
(b) farming and owning a store
(c) corn and tobacco
(d) elevators and white people

3. What does Maya call the time she spends with Mrs. Flowers?
(a) her quiet time
(b) her lessons in living
(c) her white people time
(d) her down time

4. Where does Bailey build a hideaway?
(a) in the woods
(b) at a friend's house
(c) down by the creek
(d) behind the store

5. How do Maya and Bailey feel when they get Christmas presents from their parents?
(a) happy
(b) depressed
(c) angry
(d) grateful

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Maya and Bailey dislike the Reverend Thomas?

2. What in the movies reminds Bailey of his mother?

3. What does Maya wish when she reads books about heroes?

4. Why do the blacks say it is fine for the whites to have money?

5. What does Maya admire about Momma?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Maya feel about coming back to Stamps and what does she learn from the blacks there?

2. How does Momma believe black people should live in order to be safe?

3. Why do people stay at Momma's after the fight?

4. How do the black church goers feel about the whites?

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

6. Why are people gathered at the store in Chapter 19 and why are the children excited?

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

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

9. What does Mr. Freedman do to Maya?

10. What does Maya say about Reverend Howard Thomas?

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