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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bailey do for Joyce?
(a) teaches her to read
(b) teaches her to write
(c) teaches her about boys
(d) steals food for her

2. What does Mr. Freedman order Maya to do?
(a) take off her clothes
(b) read a book
(c) go to school
(d) walk his dog

3. How do Maya and Bailey feel when they get Christmas presents from their parents?
(a) happy
(b) angry
(c) grateful
(d) depressed

4. What does Bailey do when someone insults Maya?
(a) tells Momma
(b) ignores it
(c) joins in
(d) takes revenge

5. Why do Maya and Momma hide Uncle Willie?
(a) His ex-wife is looking for him.
(b) The whites are looking for a black man.
(c) They do not want Bailey to know where he is.
(d) They are playing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Maya give Bailey a dime?

2. What happens to Joyce?

3. Where does Bailey build a hideaway?

4. Why do the blacks say it is fine for the whites to have money?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Mrs. Cullinan.

2. Why do people stay at Momma's after the fight?

3. What does Maya say about Reverend Howard Thomas?

4. Who is Joyce and what happens to her?

5. How does Maya feel about coming back to Stamps and what does she learn from the blacks there?

6. What are the only two rules Momma has about children?

7. How does Maya see Mrs. Flowers and how does she feel about her?

8. Why is Bailey late coming home in Chapter 17?

9. What does Mr. Freedman do to Maya?

10. How does Momma believe black people should live in order to be safe?

(see the answer keys)

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