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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Seth say Bynum has been at the rooming house?
(a) ten years
(b) a year
(c) two months
(d) three years

2. What was Loomis doing when Joe Turner caught him?
(a) buying bread
(b) fishing at a public pond
(c) sleeping under a tree
(d) preaching to gamblers

3. What does Bertha want Seth to make her?
(a) a baking sheet
(b) a coffee pot
(c) a metal platter
(d) a frying pan

4. Why does Zonia say she and her father have to find her mother?
(a) They need to give her mother an inheritance.
(b) They need to bring her mother news.
(c) Her mother ran away and left them.
(d) Her mother is in trouble with the law.

5. What does Bynum compare Jeremy to?
(a) an apple on a tree
(b) a child running away from home
(c) a ship on the sea
(d) an ant crawling across a table

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Molly say about whether she would have gone to Bynum's father?

2. What did Mattie's man say was on her?

3. Why does Jeremy tell Mattie she should move in with him?

4. In Bynum's metaphor, what is Mattie?

5. What spiritual entity is mentioned in the Juba, as noted in the play's stage direction?

(see the answer key)

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