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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. What does Sallie try to do for Bert?
(a) Get him a hotel room.
(b) Plead his case.
(c) Get him to move back north.
(d) Help him move.

2. For what does the guest chide the Colonel?
(a) For not remarrying a white woman.
(b) For having a black mistress.
(c) For keeping a black mistress in his home like a wife.
(d) For not marrying Cora.

3. What does Sallie want to become?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A business woman.
(c) A housewife.
(d) A maid.

4. Where does Cora tell Bert to hide?
(a) His room.
(b) The airport.
(c) In the swamp.
(d) The basement.

5. What is heard?
(a) Norwood wakening.
(b) The angry mob.
(c) A gunshot.
(d) Bert yelling.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Bert say he will come back to his father's house?

2. What does Norwood think about but not do to Bert?

3. Who arrives next?

4. What connection do they make?

5. Of what does Bert then inform Cora?

(see the answer key)

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