I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Chapter 8: Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. How were Stamps, Arkansas, and Chitlin’ Switch, Georgia, alike?

2. What did the writer mean when she said “a Negro couldn’t buy vanilla ice cream”?

3. What was the difference between giving “in the Negro neighborhood” and the giving done by the whites?

4. What color, according to Marguerite, was God?

5. When did the “Negro community” finally realize that the Depression had come to Stamps?

6. Why did the people quit raising hogs?

7. How did Mrs. Henderson keep the Store going when the people of the...


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