1. Reread the following text to view Marguerite’s response to this visit with Mrs. Flowers. I was liked, and what a difference it made. I was respected not as Mrs. Henderson’s grandchild or Bailey’s sister but just for being Marguerite Johnson. What is the story’s central idea? Question options:

All people need mentorship in literature
All people must look out for themselves first.
All people long to feel respected and accepted
No central idea is present.

2. When the author describes Momma's store, she says, "Until we became familiar enough to belong to the Store and it to us, we were locked up in a Fun House of Things where the attendant had gone home for life." What does the sentence mean?

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The children will inherit the store after Momma dies.
The children are frightened of various items in their grandmother’s store.
Marguerite and Bailey are free to explore a place that is full of wonderful things.
Nobody is available to baby-sit the children after school, so they are locked into the store after hours.

3. Which textual evidence from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings best supports the inference that Marguerite takes pride in Momma’s accomplishments?

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Momma hadn’t thought that taking off my dress in front of Mrs. Flowers would kill me stone dead.
Before she had quite arisen, she called our names and issued orders.
Her crisp meat pies and cool lemonade, when joined to her miraculous ability to be in two places at one time, assured her business success.
“That’s a very good job, Mrs. Henderson. You should be proud. You can put your dress back on, Marguerite.”

4. Which textual evidence from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings best supports the stated idea that the town’s cotton pickers were poor people?

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The sound of empty cotton sacks dragging over the floor and the murmurs of waking people were sliced by the cash register as we rang up five-cent sales.
Brought back to the store, the pickers would step out of the backs of trucks and fold down, dirt disappointed, to the ground.
Their wages wouldn’t even get them out of debt to my grandmother, not to mention the staggering bill that waited on them at the white commissary downtown.
One man was going to pick two hundred pounds of cotton, and another three hundred.

5. The memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings reveals to the readers how the author's childhood perspective differs from her adult perspective. Which statement best describes the difference?

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Tension develops between Mrs. Flowers and Momma; Momma apologizes to Mrs. Flowers.
The narrator does not speak much; Mrs. Flowers teaches that it is important to read literature aloud.
The narrator’s brother begins to be ashamed of her; he leaves Stamps.
The store begins to lose money; the cotton pickers work to save the store.