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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dolores tell Maya's father about marriage?
(a) She does not believe in marriage.
(b) She will marry if Maya will come to the wedding.
(c) She wants to marry him but not his children.
(d) She does not want to marry.

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

3. What does the author say determines the ethics of the people?
(a) teaching of the church
(b) the education of citizens
(c) the needs of society
(d) parents of children

4. What convinces Maya as she is leaving that Mrs. Cullinan now knows her name?
(a) She leaves it written on the table.
(b) Glory tells Mrs. Cullinan.
(c) Mrs. Cullinan screams at her.
(d) She sends a letter to Mrs. Cullinan.

5. What do the black men do for the big summer gathering?
(a) sing
(b) hunt deer
(c) fish for bass
(d) dance

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Maya want to go back to Stamps?

4. Why does Maya's mother wake her and Bailey at night?

5. What does Bailey do when someone insults Maya?

(see the answer key)

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