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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 | Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Uncle Willie become handicapped?
(a) beat up by a white gang
(b) dropped as a baby
(c) born with it
(d) hit by a car

2. What does Uncle Willie do to punish mistakes in math that Maya makes?
(a) slaps her on the head
(b) does not give her dinner
(c) touches her fingers to the stove
(d) sprays her with cold water

3. Where, according to the author, can childhood questions be answered?
(a) in the town in which the child grew up
(b) by their parents
(c) by reading about childhood
(d) by their mother

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

5. As a young child who is Maya's favorite author?
(a) Baldwin
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Stewart
(d) Hemmingway

Short Answer Questions

1. How does segregation affect the attitude of blacks towards whites?

2. How do Maya and Bailey feel when they get Christmas presents from their parents?

3. How does Maya imagine herself when she is very young?

4. Why do Maya and her brother go to live with their grandmother in Stamps?

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

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