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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maya wish when she reads books about heroes?
(a) that she would be rescued
(b) that she was a princess
(c) that a hero would kill Mr. Freedman
(d) that she was a boy

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

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

4. What kind of men are Maya's uncles?
(a) mean and violent
(b) slow learners
(c) soft spoken and courteous
(d) educated and rich

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

6. What does Mrs. Cullinan call Maya?
(a) Lizzie
(b) Marguerite
(c) Glory
(d) Mary

7. What does Maya do with the first Valentine she ever receives?
(a) presses it in a book
(b) burns it
(c) tears it up
(d) throws it away

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

9. Who becomes Maya's first girlfriend?
(a) Ruth Potter
(b) Millie Hanks
(c) Susie Turner
(d) Louise Kendricks

10. Where does Bailey build a hideaway?
(a) behind the store
(b) in the woods
(c) down by the creek
(d) at a friend's house

11. What does Maya decide to do after Mr. Freedman is stopped?
(a) become a prostitute
(b) never speak to anyone again
(c) go to college
(d) run away

12. What is the biggest gathering of the year in Stamps for black people?
(a) Memorial day
(b) Summer fish fry
(c) Fourth of July
(d) Labor day

13. How does Maya punish herself when she does not measure flour correctly?
(a) by cleaning the kitchen
(b) by not reading that night
(c) by not eating sweets
(d) by not going to the movies

14. How did Uncle Willie become handicapped?
(a) dropped as a baby
(b) beat up by a white gang
(c) born with it
(d) hit by a car

15. What are two things that interest the neighbors?
(a) corn and tobacco
(b) the military and war
(c) farming and owning a store
(d) elevators and white people

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Louis goes down temporarily how does it feel to the blacks?

3. Who gives the children peanut patties?

4. Why does Maya give Bailey a dime?

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

(see the answer keys)

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