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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the children hope for a bloody victory?
(a) The adults will give them candy.
(b) It will prove blacks are better than whites.
(c) It is nice to hear of a white man getting bloody.
(d) The adults will let them stay up late.

2. Why have many black children never seen a white person in Stamps?
(a) There are no white people in Stamps.
(b) The white people abuse black children.
(c) The blacks do not go in the white section of town.
(d) Segregation is absolute.

3. What does Maya think of her black skin?
(a) that it is strange
(b) that it does not mean anything
(c) that it is ugly
(d) that it is beautiful

4. How does life for the blacks in Stamps change following the fight?
(a) It ends segregation.
(b) It does not change at all.
(c) It gets much worse.
(d) It gets better.

5. What does Mrs. Flowers tell Maya about language?
(a) It is never clear what someone is saying.
(b) It is how man communicates.
(c) It is God's curse on humans.
(d) It does not matter how you talk.

6. When Louis goes down temporarily how does it feel to the blacks?
(a) like their dreams were dead
(b) like slavery just got reenacted
(c) like segregation is never going to end
(d) like another whipping or lynching

7. What does Bailey do in his hideaway?
(a) experiments with petting
(b) plays games with other boys
(c) sleeps
(d) reads

8. Why does Maya keep quiet about Mr. Freedman's rape of her?
(a) She is afraid he will kill Bailey.
(b) She is afraid of her mother.
(c) She is afraid he will kill the dog.
(d) She is afraid of the police.

9. Why do some people who live farther away stay at Momma's after the fight?
(a) fear of repercussions from white men
(b) to make money on boarding them
(c) to join a celebration
(d) they were too tired to walk home

10. What happens to Mr. Freedman after court?
(a) Maya's uncles kill him.
(b) He rapes her again.
(c) He goes to jail for 20 years.
(d) He runs away.

11. What does Joyce do that confuses Bailey?
(a) tells him she is a lesbian
(b) tells him to open his pants
(c) tells him he needs to grow up
(d) tells him about sex

12. What does Maya tell Joyce?
(a) not to talk to her brother
(b) to go to church with them
(c) not to confuse her brother
(d) not to come to the store

13. What does she learn from the prejudice the blacks face in Stamps?
(a) how to get rich even with segregation
(b) how to hate whites
(c) how to love deeply
(d) the ability to be satisfied in spite of the inequities

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

15. What do the blacks ask in regard to the whites and judgment?
(a) When is it going to happen?
(b) How bad is it going to be?
(c) Will the poor get to see the judgment?
(d) Will rich blacks be included?

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What in the movies reminds Bailey of his mother?

3. What does Bailey do when someone insults Maya?

4. What does Grandma Baxter do?

5. What does Maya wish when she reads books about heroes?

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