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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the biggest gathering of the year in Stamps for black people?

2. Where does Maya say a person's values and opinions are formed?

3. What do the black women do for the yearly gathering in Stamps?

4. Who is Reverend Howard Thomas?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe how Uncle Willie feels about his handicap?

5. Describe Maya's grandparents who live in the West.

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

7. How does Maya interact with Mrs. Flowers?

8. Describe Mrs. Cullinan.

9. Describe Maya's reaction to her first Valentine.

10. Why is Bailey late coming home in Chapter 17?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

With her grandmother's stern discipline and religion, her rape and abandonment by both her father and mother, and dealing with racism, Maya had a difficult childhood. How do you think that might have made her the person she became?

Essay Topic 2

If Maya Angelou were your grandmother what would you say to other students who asked you about her?

Essay Topic 3

Many of our beliefs tend to form early, often they are false because as young people we sometimes don't have the information we need to filter out false thinking. Maya had many beliefs as a child that were false. What were three of these beliefs, in your opinion and why do you think they were false?

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