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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What color is the ghost wearing?
(a) Blue.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.
2. After Lymon comes home from work and changes, what does he want to go into the city looking for?
(a) Another job.
(b) His father.
(c) A new truck.
(d) Women.
3. What type of song does Boy Willie play on the piano?
(a) A beginner's song.
(b) A jazzy boogie-woogie.
(c) An advanced jig.
(d) A dreamy lullabye.
4. What is Doaker doing when Wining Boy shows up at the house?
(a) Hanging laundry.
(b) Washing dishes.
(c) Cooking dinner.
(d) Mopping floors.
5. Who teases Doaker about the women who are after him?
(a) Berniece.
(b) Avery.
(c) Lymon.
(d) Boy Willie.
6. Which member of the Sutter family desperately wanted the piano?
(a) Veronica.
(b) Constance.
(c) Lillian.
(d) Ophelia.
7. What does Wining Boy say he felt breezing through the wind on his last trip home?
(a) Fear.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Death.
(d) Riches.
8. When Wining Boy returns from the city, where has Berniece gone?
(a) To the hospital.
(b) To church.
(c) To jail.
(d) To work.
9. What does Berniece do for a living?
(a) Washes laundry.
(b) Cleans houses.
(c) Tutors children.
(d) Repairs automobiles.
10. What color is the ghost that Lyman claims killed Sutter?
(a) Green.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.
11. What beverage do the men drink while discussing Parchman Prison?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Beer.
(d) Wine.
12. What does Doaker believe he sees Sutter's ghost doing, which he refuses to tell his sister about?
(a) Playing the piano.
(b) Chasing after Boy Willie.
(c) Staring at Berniece while she slept.
(d) Following Maretha to school.
13. Boy Willie is trying to sell his fruit in what type of neighborhood?
(a) Rich white neighborhoods.
(b) Poor white neighborhoods.
(c) Rich black neighborhoods.
(d) Poor black neighborhoods.
14. Berniece and her uncle live in which city?
(a) Pacifica.
(b) Pittsburgh.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Petosky.
15. What sound is heard by the characters who attempt to move the piano?
(a) Singing.
(b) Whispering.
(c) Weeping.
(d) Moaning
Short Answer Questions
1. What instrument does Boy Willie hope to sell to make a bit of money?
2. What type of song does Maretha play on the piano?
3. Before the dream in which Avery was told to change his profession, what did he do for a living?
4. Lymon and Boy Willie have come to sell what fruit?
5. What does Doaker believe is the significance of Sutter's blue suit?
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