I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

1. What is Maya Angelou’s birth name?

2. Why did Maya and Bailey’s parents send them to Stamps, Arkansas?

3. How did Maya and Bailey get to Stamps?

4. Why does Uncle Willie hide in the potato bin?

5. Who is the “most important person” in Maya’s life?

6. Which author is Maya’s first love?

7. What does Momma do while the poor white children mock her in the yard?

8. What does Maya do to defy Mrs. Cullinan?

9. Who is Maya’s first friend?

10. What does Maya do for the first time in Mexico?

11. Why does Bailey stay late at the movies?

12. Who rapes Maya?

13. Where does Maya live after running away from her father’s friend’s house?

14. Which famous figure sustains black pride for those who congregate at the Store?

15. How does Vivian make a living?

16. Why does Maya stop talking?

17. What does Grandfather Baxter teach his sons to be?

18. In which city does Maya feel she belongs?

19. Why does Maya sleep with the neighborhood boy?

20. What does Maya hide from Vivian and Daddy Clidell?

21. Whom does Maya consider a real father figure?

22. What does Maya do before she slaps Dolores?

23. Who makes Maya feel like an equal human being?

24. Blacks replace what ethnic minority in San Francisco during World War II?

25. What breakthrough does Maya achieve in San Francisco?