1: Maya, on vacation in southern California, envisions visiting Daddy Bailey at a
a. manor house with liveried staff
b. cozy home with red shutters and a picket fence
c. retreat replete with orange trees
d. beach bungalow facing the Pacific
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2: The title of this autobiography is derived from a poem named “Sympathy,” written by
a. Ryan Joseph
b. Paul Laurence Dunbar
c. James Joyce
d. Langston Hughes
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3: Which of the following items was not among Maya’s eighth-grade graduation gifts?
a. Mickey Mouse watch
b. Handkerchiefs
c. A book of Edgar Allan Poe’s works
d. Gloves for church
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4: The kind of woman whom Angelou epitomizes in her poem Now Sheba Sings the Song is
a. sycophantic
b. synthetic
c. sybaritic
d. sympathetic
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5: Maya is initiated "into the brotherhood of man" by which experience?
a. The "coming of age" ceremony at church
b. Staying with a gang of teenage runaways
c. The move away from racially divided Arkansas to culturally diverse San Francisco
d. Pricking her finger and exchanging blood with her two best friends
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6: Maya's sole regret in departing from Stamps, Arkansas, is
a. not getting to finish the quilt she began with Mrs. Flowers
b. never saying "I'm sorry" to Miss Pattypan
c. leaving her kind teacher, Miss Kirwin
d. the loss of Louise's friendship
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7: Fundamentalism is a twentieth-century religious movement
a. whose believers manifest the Holy Spirit by speaking in tongues
b. that adheres to scripture from only the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible
c. that interprets scripture literally and applies it to daily life
d. that celebrates Nature, the foundation of life
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8: In literature, the word used to describe anticlimactic sentimentality is
a. pathos
b. bathos
c. poignancy
d. hyperbole
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9: Who said the following: "I will not allow anybody to minimize my life, not anybody, not a living soul -- nobody, no lover, no mother, no son, no boss, no President, nobody."
a. Martin Luther King
b. Maya Angelou
c. Oprah Winfrey
d. Rosa Parks
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10: Who said the following: "This testimony from a black sister marks the beginning of an era in the minds and hearts and lives of all black men and women . . ."
a. Thurgood Marshall
b. Angela Davis
c. James Baldwin
d. Malcolm X
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11: Who said the following: "[I] wouldn't bust suds for anybody nor be anyone's kitchen bitch."
a. Maya
b. Dolores
c. Viola
d. Vivian
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12: Who said the following: "He tole that snippity nurse of his'n."
a. Annie
b. Baily
c. Daddy Clidell
d. Mr. Liddell
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