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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 Bailey do in response to his mother's dislike of his lifestyle?
(a) moves out
(b) quits hanging with his friends
(c) slaps her
(d) goes back to school

2. How does Maya's mother's home seem to her after returning from her father's?
(a) noisy and confusing
(b) boring
(c) exciting
(d) smaller and quieter

3. What does Willie tell Bailey is the reason white people hate blacks so much?
(a) White people feel inferior to blacks.
(b) Whites have no souls.
(c) Whites are afraid of blacks.
(d) White people made black people slaves.

4. What are the graduates of Lafayette Training School expected to become?
(a) doctors and lawyers
(b) business owners
(c) politicians
(d) farmers, maids, handymen and carpenters

5. What does Mrs. Taylor's funeral do to Maya?
(a) makes her happy
(b) makes the word "death" real
(c) makes her sad
(d) helps her grow up

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Bailey feel about Maya's return?

3. Why does George Taylor visit Momma?

4. What is Maya's rank in her graduating class?

5. What do the people at graduation sing after the valedictorian's speech?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Maya feel about San Francisco as a community?

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. What happens when Maya decides she wants to work on the street car?

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

8. What happens to Maya when she starts school in San Francisco?

9. How does Maya imagine her grandmother will handle the dentist?

10. What happened that upset Bailey so much before he goes to California?

(see the answer keys)

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