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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does the young Maya think about white people?
(a) They are dumb.
(b) They are ungodly.
(c) They smell funny.
(d) They cannot be human.

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

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

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

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

11. Who are the fighters that the blacks are listening to during a match broadcast on the radio?
(a) Ali and Fraiser
(b) Carnera and Louis
(c) Carmicheal and Veal
(d) Robinson and Louis

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

13. Who is Reverend Howard Thomas?
(a) Uncle Willie's friend
(b) Momma's brother
(c) a presiding elder in the church
(d) the preacher on television

14. What do the blacks in Stamps think of Mrs. Flowers?
(a) She is too white.
(b) She is a loose woman.
(c) She is an Uncle Tom.
(d) She is the nobility.

15. Who gives the children peanut patties?
(a) Momma
(b) Mrs. Flowers
(c) Uncle Willie
(d) The owner of the candy store

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Maya punish herself when she does not measure flour correctly?

2. Who does Maya speak to finally after spending time with Mrs. Flowers?

3. Why do Maya and Bailey dislike the Reverend Thomas?

4. How did Uncle Willie become handicapped?

5. Why does Maya say she is so advanced in school?

(see the answer keys)

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