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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 kind of people does the street car company hire?
(a) educated people
(b) white people
(c) Chinese
(d) high school graduates

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

3. What does Maya's mother tell her when she is worried about raising a child?
(a) She should take a parenting class.
(b) She will help her.
(c) She will be fine because it is natural.
(d) Being a parent is very difficult.

4. What does Momma give Maya for graduation?
(a) a used car
(b) a new dress
(c) a Mickey Mouse watch
(d) a business suit

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Maya get to her new school in San Francisco?

2. What does her mother say about Maya's pregnancy?

3. With whom does Maya have adult conversations?

4. Where does Maya spend summer vacation?

5. Why does Maya's mother wake her and Bailey at night?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Maya do when she leaves her father's friend's house?

2. What happened that upset Bailey so much before he goes to California?

3. Explain how blacks avoid lying, according to Maya.

4. Describe Maya's trip to Mexico with her father.

5. How does Maya feel about school when she returns and what does she do about it?

6. Describe Maya's perceptions and experience in her first year at George Washington High School.

7. What does Momma do when Maya has cavities that need the attention of a dentist?

8. How does her mother's house feel to Maya when she returns and does she think she is better off having gone to her father's?

9. How does Maya feel about San Francisco as a community?

10. Describe the Lafayette Training School and its students.

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