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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Maya prove she is not a lesbian?
(a) She starts dating boys.
(b) She has sex with a boy.
(c) She sees a psychologist.
(d) She reads more books.

4. How does Maya see the city of San Francisco?
(a) stuck up
(b) friendly, but cool
(c) angry
(d) stupid

5. Where does Maya's father take her on a trip?
(a) Canada
(b) Mexico
(c) Las Vegas
(d) Florida

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

7. To what does Maya compare her grandmother's ability to calm Maya?
(a) drinking hot chocolate
(b) soothing the forehead when sick
(c) Jesus calming the sea
(d) petting a cat to calm it

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

9. How many black doctors and dentists does Stamps have?
(a) five
(b) two
(c) one
(d) none

10. How does Maya feel about communication with the dead?
(a) bored
(b) unbelieving
(c) terrified
(d) excited

11. How does Maya feel about the threat of bombings during the war?
(a) at home
(b) unbelieving
(c) indifferent
(d) frightened

12. How is racism practiced in San Francisco?
(a) violently
(b) covertly
(c) openly
(d) there is none

13. Where does Maya go when she runs from her father?
(a) She goes to Florida.
(b) She goes back to her mother.
(c) She wanders the town.
(d) She goes to Stamps.

14. How does Miss Kerwin treat her black and white students?
(a) she favors the Chinese
(b) she favors the blacks
(c) equally
(d) she favors the whites

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do some white men do that makes Bailey so upset one night?

2. Where does Momma tell Maya and Bailey they will be going to live?

3. How does the black community treat the graduates of Lafayette Training School?

4. With whom does Maya have adult conversations?

5. How does Maya feel about being pregnant?

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