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

2. What does Maya tell Joyce?
(a) not to talk to her brother
(b) not to come to the store
(c) not to confuse her brother
(d) to go to church with them

3. What does Maya hear all night when Uncle Willie is hiding?
(a) his whimpering
(b) the minister preaching
(c) blacks singing
(d) people running and yelling outside

4. What does Maya admire about Momma?
(a) her wealth
(b) her beauty
(c) her strength and power
(d) her intelligence

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do some people who live farther away stay at Momma's after the fight?

2. How does Maya get out of working for Mrs. Cullinan?

3. Why have many black children never seen a white person in Stamps?

4. What do Maya and her best friend call the language that they create?

5. What does Maya do with the first Valentine she ever receives?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Maya interact with Mrs. Flowers?

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

4. Describe Mrs. Cullinan.

5. What are black girls supposed to learn in Stamps and how do they learn it?

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

7. What does Mr. Freedman do to Maya?

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

9. Describe Maya's thoughts as she watches the cotton pickers.

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

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