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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are girls in Stamps required to learn?
(a) embroidery, crochet and tatting
(b) dressmaking and baking
(c) cooking and cleaning
(d) childcare, sewing and driving

2. What do the preachers talk about in relationship to God and whites?
(a) God hates them.
(b) They are favored by God.
(c) God is indifferent to them.
(d) They will receive punishment.

3. What does Bailey do when someone insults Maya?
(a) takes revenge
(b) joins in
(c) tells Momma
(d) ignores it

4. What does Maya hear all night when Uncle Willie is hiding?
(a) the minister preaching
(b) his whimpering
(c) blacks singing
(d) people running and yelling outside

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Bailey feel about the neighbors questions?

3. What does Maya think of her black skin?

4. What does Maya find interesting about poor people's attitude towards God?

5. What do the neighbors ask the children about?

(see the answer key)

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