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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bailey do in response to his mother's dislike of his lifestyle?
(a) moves out
(b) slaps her
(c) quits hanging with his friends
(d) goes back to school

2. Why does George Taylor visit Momma?
(a) He likes the children.
(b) He is lonely.
(c) He needs money.
(d) He is a friend of Uncle Willie's.

3. What happens after the baby is born?
(a) She gets pregnant again.
(b) She wants another baby.
(c) She goes to Stamps.
(d) Maya is afraid to touch him.

4. Why are Maya and Bailey being sent away?
(a) Momma does not want them anymore.
(b) Their father wants them.
(c) Stamps is too segregated.
(d) Momma is too old.

5. What happens to Maya's Japanese neighbors during the war?
(a) they are robbed
(b) they disappear
(c) they join the army
(d) nothing

6. How does Maya's mother's home seem to her after returning from her father's?
(a) noisy and confusing
(b) exciting
(c) boring
(d) smaller and quieter

7. What does her mother say about Maya's pregnancy?
(a) that she has to go live in Stamps
(b) asks if she wants to marry the boy
(c) that those things happen
(d) that Maya is a whore

8. Where does Maya spend summer vacation?
(a) in England on scholarship
(b) in Stamps
(c) she doesn't go anywhere
(d) with her father and his girlfriend

9. Who does Vivian marry after Maya has gone to live with her?
(a) Mr. Clidell
(b) no one
(c) Malcom X
(d) Mr. William Hardy

10. Where does Maya's father work?
(a) he's a soldier
(b) at the library
(c) at a school
(d) at a naval hospital

11. What does Maya tell her father about Dolores?
(a) She is awful.
(b) She is very nice.
(c) She is pretentious.
(d) She is pretty.

12. Where do the black people who move into Maya's neighborhood during the war go to work?
(a) in the dance halls
(b) in the motels
(c) in the war factories
(d) on the docks

13. What book does Maya read that exposes her to lesbianism?
(a) Six of One
(b) Dykes on Bikes
(c) The Well of Loneliness
(d) The Children's Hour

14. Maya think lesbians are the same as _________.
(a) single older women
(b) tough girls
(c) hermaphrodites
(d) tomboys

15. How does Bailey feel about Maya's return?
(a) not interested in it
(b) depressed
(c) excited
(d) happy

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Maya start cutting school?

2. What does Dolores call Vivian?

3. How does Maya react to her fight with Dolores?

4. Why is Maya afraid to go home to her mother's?

5. How does Maya feel about the threat of bombings during the war?

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