I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Chapter 2: Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. What handicap did Uncle Willie have?

2. Who was Uncle Willie’s mother?

3. Why did his mother say he was handicapped?

4. How did Uncle Willie punish the children if they made a second mistake on their times tables?

5. Who was Marguerite’s first white “love”?

6. How did Marguerite pacify herself about Shakespeare’s whiteness?

7. Who was the poet that Marguerite and Bailey memorized?

8. What was the name of the poem that they memorized?

9. Why did Marguerite deliberately jump toward the...


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