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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wil offer Fannie as they talk on the porch?
(a) To beat up Frank.
(b) To buy them more land.
(c) To share his land with Fannie and her sisters.
(d) To kill Frank.

2. What does Miss Leah think of Frank's violent behavior?
(a) Frank needs to learn a lesson.
(b) Minnie can work it out if she becomes a better wife.
(c) It is just a phase.
(d) He will never change.

3. What does Wil think of bad memories?
(a) He can do without them.
(b) There are too many too count for a black man.
(c) They make the good ones sweeter.
(d) His life would be empty if he did not have any bad memories.

4. How did Frank's father meet his mother?
(a) Frank's mother kept house for Frank's grandfather.
(b) They worked on the same plantation.
(c) His father owned Frank's mother.
(d) In the town grocery.

5. What does Miss Leah share with Minnie about James's feelings toward her children?
(a) James cannot shower them with enough attention.
(b) James feels awkard as the only mulatto in the family.
(c) James looks at Miss Leah's children as commodity.
(d) James gives them some slack because he likes Miss Leah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Minnie find out about her own parents?

2. Frank is __________ about being called a colored poet.

3. In the family, Fannie can be considered __________.

4. When Sophie arrives, what does she want Wil to do?

5. Sophie will accept Frank as long as __________.

(see the answer key)

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