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ISBN: 978-0-8129-8002-8 (0-8129-8002-6)   1. Maya Angelou begins
her autobiography with a moment of public humiliation in church.
Why do you think she chose this scene in particular? Do themes
in this scene reappear throughout the memoir?  2. To Marguerite,
her mother seems alternately charming, elusive, unreliable and
strong. Which episodes in the novel illuminate her character? Do
you think she was a good mother?  3. Mrs. Flowers “encouraged
[Marguerite] to listen carefully to what country people called
mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the
collective wisdom