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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The piano is stolen from the Sutter home during which holiday celebration?
(a) Fourth of July.
(b) Halloween.
(c) Memorial Day.
(d) Christmas.

2. Which character admits to being on the run from the police?
(a) Boy Willie.
(b) Uncle Doaker.
(c) Sutter.
(d) Lymon.

3. Who does Boy Willie expect to teach Maretha about the significance of the piano?
(a) Avery.
(b) Doaker.
(c) Berniece.
(d) Momma Ola.

4. What was Wining Boy's occupation while he was married?
(a) He was a musician.
(b) He was a doctor.
(c) He was a blacksmith.
(d) He was a student.

5. What has Wining Boy brought to the city to pawn?
(a) Sheets of music.
(b) The piano.
(c) His car.
(d) His suit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Doaker doing when Wining Boy shows up at the house?

2. Who offers herself to Wining Boy as repayment for helping bail a family member out of jail?

3. After Lymon comes home from work and changes, what does he want to go into the city looking for?

4. Which character becomes very emotional and attacks Boy Willie upon seeing the piano moved?

5. What does Berniece do for a living?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Sutter react to the disappearance of his prized piano?

2. How was Lymon's father killed?

3. What does Lymon tell Berniece he is looking for in a woman?

4. What does Wining Boy reveal about Lymon's father and Wining Boy's relationship with Lymon's mother?

5. What type of encounter does Boy Willie explain that he has had with the piano's potential buyer on his way home from Grace's?

6. What kind of fight does Boy Willie get into with Sutter's ghost?

7. How does Berniece find out that Boy Willie intends to remove the piano that day, and how does she respond?

8. How does Avery begin his exorcism of Sutter's ghost?

9. What reason does Berniece give her brother for wanting him out of the house?

10. What is revealed about Wining Boy's life as a musician while married?

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