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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. How many times has Momma been married?
(a) two
(b) three
(c) none
(d) once

2. What does Maya do with the first Valentine she ever receives?
(a) tears it up
(b) throws it away
(c) burns it
(d) presses it in a book

3. When Louis goes down temporarily how does it feel to the blacks?
(a) like another whipping or lynching
(b) like slavery just got reenacted
(c) like segregation is never going to end
(d) like their dreams were dead

4. Where do Bailey and Maya sit in church?
(a) with the other children
(b) in the choir loft
(c) in the back
(d) the front row

5. What does Maya think of her black skin?
(a) that it is strange
(b) that it is ugly
(c) that it does not mean anything
(d) that it is beautiful

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maya tell Joyce?

2. How did Uncle Willie become handicapped?

3. What do the blacks in Stamps think of Mrs. Flowers?

4. What does Joyce do that confuses Bailey?

5. How are the cotton pickers in the first chapter paid?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Maya interact with Mrs. Flowers?

3. Describe Mrs. Cullinan.

4. Why is Saturday important to Maya?

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

6. Who is Joyce and what happens to her?

7. Describe the activities of the blacks' Summer Fish Fry.

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

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

10. What does Mr. Freedman do to Maya?

(see the answer keys)

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