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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. With whom does Maya have adult conversations?
(a) students in school
(b) her stepfather
(c) college graduates that board with her mother
(d) her grandmother

2. What do some white men do that makes Bailey so upset one night?
(a) They make him carry the body of a black man.
(b) They threaten Maya.
(c) They threaten to lynch him.
(d) They beat him.

3. What does Dolores call Vivian?
(a) a two timer
(b) a whore
(c) a smart woman
(d) a creep

4. Who does Vivian marry after Maya has gone to live with her?
(a) Mr. Clidell
(b) Mr. William Hardy
(c) Malcom X
(d) no one

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maya's new stepfather do for work?

2. What do Bailey and Maya have in common since her return from her father's?

3. Why is Maya uncomfortable about her new school in San Francisco?

4. Where does Maya's father take her after her fight with Dolores?

5. Why is Maya afraid to go home to her mother's?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the children do when they move to San Francisco?

2. Describe Maya's trip to Mexico with her father.

3. Describe the Lafayette Training School and its students.

4. How does her mother's house feel to Maya when she returns and does she think she is better off having gone to her father's?

5. Describe Mrs. Taylor's funeral and Maya's reaction.

6. How does Maya feel about her pregnancy and what does she do?

7. What does Mr. Clidell teach Maya?

8. Describe Maya's perceptions and experience in her first year at George Washington High School.

9. What does Maya's father do for a living and how does he obtain what is necessary for the job?

10. Why does Maya think she might be a lesbian and what does she think a lesbian is?

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