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City and state where Bailey and Marguerite get sent to live at the beginning of the novel.
What is Stamps, Arkansas?
Uncle Willie’s role in the children’s life.
What is disciplinarian?
This person made it difficult for Marguerite to read the work of white authors.
Who is Momma?
The most important person in Marguerite's life.
Who is Bailey Johnson?
This clergyman did not favor well with Maya and Bailey.
Who is Reverend Thomas?
The formal name of Momma's business establishment.
What is the Wm. Johnson General Merchandise Store?
Daddy Bailey's girlfriend's full name.
Who is Dolores Stockland?
The children’s reaction to receiving their Christmas gifts from their parents.
What is crying, disappointment, anger, etc.?
This situation occurred after Maya and Bailey left school in St. Louis and enrolled in another.
What is moved up a grade?
The animal that Maya compared Mr. Freeman to?
What is a pig?
Mr. Freeman threatens to do this if Maya tells anyone what he did to her.
What is kill Bailey; kill her?
Who we can assume was responsible for Mr. Freeman’s death, based upon textual support and inferences.
Who are Maya's uncles; the Baxter men; Grandmother Baxter?
This happens as a result of Mr. Freeman’s death.
What is Maya becomes mute; stops speaking/talking?
Taught Maya that she must always be intolerant of ignorance, but understanding of illiteracy.
Who is Mrs. Bertha Flowers?
This young woman was considered to be Bailey Jr.'s first love.
Who is Joyce?
Within the novel, Angelou uses a flashback to describe her feelings and thoughts for the first time about being aware of her "blackness" during which milestone event?
What is her 8th grade graduation?
Was responsible for instilling hope and inspiring the audience after they had heard Mr. Donleavy’s disappointing speech.
Who is Henry Reed?
Expressed that he would rather stick his hand in the mouth of a dog, than treat a black patient.
Who is Dr. Lincoln?
Bailey was reluctantly involved in the transportation of a dead black man to the local jail. What question about life did this event raise for Bailey?
What is "Why did whites hate blacks so much?
He had more integrity and character than Mr. Freeman, or any other of Mother's conquests.
Who is Daddy Clidell?
The false information Daddy give to his girlfriend, Dolores, about the children.
What is "He told her they were much younger than they actually were."
These two historical events contribute to the events in the story.
What is the Great Depression and World War II?
The reason that Maya initiated the physical altercation between Dolores and herself.
What is Dolores spoke ill of Maya’s mother?
Maya’s choice for a part-time job.
What is a Streetcar operator/conductor; the first Negro on the San Francisco streetcars?
Where Maya goes when she runs away from home after the fight with Dolores.
What is a junkyard?