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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. How does Boy Willie react to Berniece's claim that she has seen a ghost?
(a) He thinks she is being ridiculous.
(b) He is amused because there is no such thing as ghosts.
(c) He is terrified at the possibility.
(d) He is confused why the ghost would come to her.

2. What were the men attempting to steal?
(a) Lumber.
(b) Cars.
(c) Gold.
(d) Food.

3. What does Wining Boy carry with him that has a weight as heavy as a piano?
(a) His guilt.
(b) His talent.
(c) HIs fears.
(d) His questions.

4. What does Wining Boy say he felt breezing through the wind on his last trip home?
(a) Riches.
(b) Death.
(c) Fear.
(d) Ghosts.

5. When the group is singing prison songs, which character is asked to play the piano?
(a) Wining Boy.
(b) Maretha.
(c) Berniece.
(d) Boy Willie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Berniece's daughter?

2. What was Wining Boy's profession?

3. After meeting a ghost on the railroad tracks, Wining Boy claims that he has had good luck for how long?

4. How did Sutter's wife feel about the trade of her slaves for the piano?

5. What problem continually plagues Boy Willie and Lyman as they attempt to sell their fruit?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Berniece respond when she happens upon Boy Willie and Grace?

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

3. How do Boy Willie and Lymon end up in Pittsburgh?

4. When Berniece and Lymon's conversation turns to Avery, what advice does Lymon give to Berniece about the relationship?

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

6. After his failed date, what gift does Lymon give to Berniece, and what is her response to the gesture?

7. What happens when Wining Boy goes to the city to pawn his belongings?

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

9. How does Wining Boy say that ghosts have affected his life?

10. What happens when Berniece threatens Boy Willie with the gun?

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