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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Maya and her brother go to live with their grandmother in Stamps?
(a) Their parents are killed.
(b) Their mother is sick.
(c) Their parents do not want them.
(d) Their parents divorce.

2. Why does Maya want to go back to Stamps?
(a) She is frightened.
(b) she misses her grandmother.
(c) She misses her friends.
(d) She hates the weather.

3. What in the movies reminds Bailey of his mother?
(a) seeing St. Louis
(b) the actress, Kay Williams
(c) the city of San Fransico
(d) watching the trains go west

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

5. How does Maya imagine herself when she is very young?
(a) as a blonde with blue eyes
(b) as a woman wearing furs and diamonds
(c) as a super black model
(d) as a white man

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Bailey and Maya sit in church?

2. What convinces Maya as she is leaving that Mrs. Cullinan now knows her name?

3. What do the blacks in Stamps think of Mrs. Flowers?

4. Why have many black children never seen a white person in Stamps?

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

(see the answer key)

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