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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Bailey build a hideaway?
(a) behind the store
(b) in the woods
(c) at a friend's house
(d) down by the creek

2. What are two things that interest the neighbors?
(a) the military and war
(b) corn and tobacco
(c) farming and owning a store
(d) elevators and white people

3. What does Bailey do in his hideaway?
(a) reads
(b) sleeps
(c) experiments with petting
(d) plays games with other boys

4. What does Bailey do for Joyce?
(a) teaches her about boys
(b) teaches her to read
(c) teaches her to write
(d) steals food for her

5. Who, according to blacks, is successful in spite of the oppression of white people?
(a) Malcom X
(b) teachers in black schools
(c) black doctors
(d) the hero in the ghetto

Short Answer Questions

1. What does she learn from the prejudice the blacks face in Stamps?

2. What happens to Joyce?

3. How does Maya feel once she is back in Stamps?

4. With whom does Maya have adult conversations?

5. What does the author say determines the ethics of the people?

(see the answer key)

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