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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Maya's mother wake her and Bailey at night?
(a) to drill them about their school work
(b) for biscuits and chocolate milk
(c) to move them out of her room
(d) because she's drunk

3. What makes Maya proud to be black for the first time?
(a) Her Momma's store
(b) Graduating from school
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Mrs. Flowers

4. How does the black community treat the graduates of Lafayette Training School?
(a) like college graduates
(b) no different than anyone else
(c) like royalty
(d) like laborers

5. Why do Maya and Momma hide Uncle Willie?
(a) The whites are looking for a black man.
(b) They are playing.
(c) His ex-wife is looking for him.
(d) They do not want Bailey to know where he is.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Flowers tell Maya about language?

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

3. What does the young Maya think about white people?

4. Who comes to Stamps to get the children?

5. How many times has Momma been married?

(see the answer key)

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